Not really about selfhosting, but I read that a lot of selfhosters do not selfhost their emails. Should have pop/imap.
I am thinking about iCloud that offers 3 aliases, but actually I need 5. Does iCloud has a catchall-option?
mailbox.org and skiff are „too expensive“ with 3€/month.
migadu is another candidate. 19€/year.
I once read about a cheap one-man-show-E-Mail-provider, that I would like to try, but I can‘t remember the name.
Do you have more suggestions?
Not really about selfhosting, but I read that a lot of selfhosters do not selfhost their emails. Should have pop/imap.
I am thinking about iCloud that offers 3 aliases, but actually I need 5. Does iCloud has a catchall-option?
mailbox.org and skiff are „too expensive“ with 3€/month.
migadu is another candidate. 19€/year.
I once read about a cheap one-man-show-E-Mail-provider, that I would like to try, but I can‘t remember the name.
Do you have more suggestions?
Edit:
Thanks for your recommendations! After a short comparism, these are my current candidates:
icloud 12€/year 3 emailadresses/50GB BUT catchall-option (good)
mxroute 80€/lifetime unlimited/10GB
purelymail 9€/year unlimited/unlimited - BUT one man show (bad)
infomanikak mail-service 18€/year 5 adresses/unlimited
sorted out
migadu 19€/year unlimited / only 5GB / BUT only 20/200 (out/in) mails a day (bad)
Protonmail -> no SMTP (bad)
posteo -> no own domain possible (bad)
other recommendations: too expensive
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MXroute personal tier is 10GB combined for unlimited domains and addresses (aliases) with IMAP/POP3. It’s $49 USD per year, or $99 USD for lifetime service.
Mxroute is great. It just works, and there’s no sneaky fees, upsells, or any other bullshit.
I’ve been using https://www.migadu.com/ - can recommend
Me too. Using Mailbox before that, but cancelled when they moved custom domain to a higher tier. Tried the 5$ Mxroute, but that looked too messy for me; too many frontend options, whereas I like my mail simple and secure.
You don’t need a mail server if all you want is a custom email domain. You can just use something like CloudFlare DNS to have them forward all emails to your domain to another private email address (e.g. Gmail).
You can use posteo for 1€ a month. For more aliases look at mozmail (mozilla) or simplelogin. Or try runbox if you dont care about encryption at rest
There are 2 free aliases with posteo. Every additional comes for €0.10. That would be 1.30 per month, or 15.60 per year
Just switched to iCloud last week. Yes, it does catch-all (although it needs to be enabled through a checkbox in one of the settings menu). It also does sub-addressing / plus-addressing natively (no menu setting needed), which doesn’t seem to actually be documented but it works flawlessly for me.
I’ve been extremely happy with it so far. Pairing plus addressing with some of the filtering rules allows me to direct bulk mail to the right place automatically. For whatever reason, filtering rules can’t be done on iOS but need to be set through icloud.com (not sure if they can be set on macOS).
I’m with Migadu at the moment and I find it quite agreeable so far. There is a free, no credit card trial if you want to try it out. They’re Swiss, hosting in France, if you want your data on EU grounds and not the US for a better privacy.
Same here, works fine for me. The only hitch dor me was that sending from one of domains to another of mine counts towards outgoing mails. Changed the recipient afterwards, everything’s shiny now!
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Try mxroute.com. Full price is already not bad, and they have ridiculously cheap promos around December.
I’ll second that. I’ve been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.
There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they’ll take a loss on it, but… the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it’s some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.
I’ve been using purelymail. 10 dollars a year and you can add as many domains and make as many accounts as you want.
This looks pretty great. How long have you been using it for? I am using FastMail for quite a while, but I don’t use web interface, or calendar / contacts syncing (have my own nextcloud server for those), so just need email. Its’ pretty pricey compare to purelymail.
I’ve been using it for around a year
Serious question - as a normie I’m usesd to - Email Provider=Domain.
Google = @gmail.
ProtonMail = @protonmailHow does custom domains play into this? Does using a custom domain for mail requires a special entry in the DNS record?
Magnets, how do they work?
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Yeah they give you the DNS records to add to your domain
Not sure why I see this one recommended so much. Seems like it’s run by just one dude who won’t always be able to respond to support requests, security issues and other emergencies in the time frames you’d want with such a service. I also really wouldn’t want to bet my ability to securely access/send/receive important emails on that one person in Delaware not randomly getting hit by a car or something.
Yeah, I didn’t know it was just one person. That doesn’t really feel umm… safe for something like email.
It is true afaik but support has been excellent from him. Used it for a few years but switched to zoho for better support of protocols.
What’s PurelyMail like? They seem very cheap.
Here are a couple of links to help you get a better idea of what purelymail is like:
- http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?s=18ba5e009f62a6219d55930609f6bdd1&t=77218
- https://github.com/ScottPeterJohnson/purelymail-issues/issues
I’m in the process of trying it out for a year before I switch over fully. Have yet to run into any issues but I’m not a heavy email user.
Thanks. I’ll take a look. I’ve wanted to move away from gmail for a while now and this is cheap enough to try out.
Im pretty happy with protonmail. Email is kind of important you may not want to go with the cheapest option.
Second proton, I use my own domain with it. Works great!
Another vote for the proton services. Been with them for years and very happy.
I’ve used mailbox.org for the last few years. They are a privacy-focused provider out of Germany. They aren’t restrictive on the app you use, like proton, and offer an integrated PGP-signing solution.
I use forwarding service to send everything to my family’s standard gmail accounts. Everyone just gets a full subdomain and short address.
This gets you your own domain and email address, but it probably isn’t what people in the self-hosting community have in mind.
I use mainly Protonmail, lately also digging Skiff a lot. It’s a shame Startmail doesn’t support own domains (yet?).
In the past also tried Tutanota, Mailbox.org, Fastmail, Posteo but never really liked using them.
Moved from ProtonMail to iCloud+ last year since I was already paying for iCloud+. Proton’s lack of IMAP support on mobile devices is another reason I left. Their reason for that is privacy, which I understand. Privacy is important to me, but this is email we’re talking about. It will never be private considering the majority of people we email use Gmail, Outlook, etc.
All that being said, iCloud+ has been solid for email. No major issues at all on my end. The spam filter is quite strict for me, but I would consider that a good thing.
Same here, iCloud+ works great for me, the domain setup was painless and you can even create multiple aliases & inboxes and share the domain with your iCloud Family if you have one.
I’ll vouch for iCloud+ too, and it does have a catch-all that you can set up
Another same reply. There is a catch-all now but there wasn’t originally.
