Im tried of giving my data to google for all my email needs. Preferably I would like to use the thunderbird client.
I also have a number of self hosted services. I used to run my own email server, but ATT no longer allows the ports open and I want to move away from self hosting that solution. Figured I would ask people what they use here, since Im assuming others are in a similar situation.
Any suggestions?
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Some services Ive been looking at:
- Cheapest seems to be namecheaps own offerings: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
- Proton mail seems to be good, but I would have to pay extra for the Thunderbird integration by the look of things.
I use posteo.
If you’re thinking of using your own domain, I would suggest using forwardemail.net
Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, and Posteo are all good.
Proton and Tuta have free offerings. Posteo and mailbox have the cheapest paid offering, but posteo doesn’t allow custom domains.
I have been using purelymail with my own domains, and at $10 a year with no limit on domains or users under those domains, it’s amazing value.
Third this. I use it for my personal vps’/vms/etc. email sending and liked it so much I replaced o365 send for machine accounts at work with it and it’s been sending 30k emails a month to my o365 domain (mostly reports programatically sent from one program/excel sheet [yah I know, don’t judge us, it works] to one or a set of users who have 0365 email accounts on my work domain) with no trouble for over a year now. I pay as I go on that account but it’s usually 17-25 dollars a month, way less than what I was paying when I had a smaller subset of current senders on o365 and with way less pain because it supports less annoying for programming methods of authentication without having to whitelist ips, which was often impossible because people moved their laptops around and sent from different locations.
posteo is really cheap but a great service
Using Fastmail
- works with 1Password to generate masked emails
- plus and subdomain addressing
In case those features are important to you
I am using proton essentials plan it gets you ten custom emails that you can use with three custom domains.
So I use one email for my game servers so those services use that then I have another general use email for sending info like recently added plex content or alerts from my server then a few mix and match for random stuff.
Not the cheapest but now I’m also using their calendar which is nice. I don’t use any desktop clients though I prefer to keep as much stuff in the browser
Iirc SMTP and whatnot is business only for Proton, so I assume you’re sending alert emails through some other service like myself, right? I’ve been using SMTP2GO’s free tier and it works well for my very low usage needs, would love to hear more about your setup if you have any tips.
If you want free, I’d recommend Protom Mail.
For paid, I really like Mailbox.org and Posteo. They work with IMAP/POP3, CardDAV, and CalDAV
And how would you use Tbird on a free subscription? The bridge is a subscriber service.
