Ask HN: What email service provider are you using for your custom domain?

[brink]

With Australia's new mass surveillance mandate, I'm in the market for a new email service provider. Who do you use to host your email?

[saladuh]

Migadu http://migadu.com/

Super nice people, when you email them for support they're fast and thorough. Their founders are/have been active on here, and they're currently investing in foss projects by hiring sourcehut.org (Simon Ser and Drew DeVault) to build a new web mail built on modern Go libraries https://git.sr.ht/~migadu/alps.

They've got a list of pros/cons here https://www.migadu.com/procon/

I'll shill them any day because I appreciate their simple goal of creating a good email service with no extra unicord dust, marketing, etc on top, plus their willingness to work on open technologies.

They've got what you'd expect for the price, unlimited domains, great admin dashboard, etc etc. CalDAV and CardDAV come out of beta very soon (end of September iirc).

[auslegung]

Fastmail. I used mailfence for almost two years but was disappointed in their customer service. I tried out fastmail a couple of months ago and everything about it is better/easier.

[soraminazuki]

Most likely the OP wants to switch from Fastmail, an Australian service.

[randomperson_24]

Zoho Mail - Free (even for custom domains), no Ads and an amazing email UI

https://www.zoho.com/mail/

[blackboxlogic]

Is it free because they hope you'll but they're other integrated services? Their cheapest plan looks to be $1/m (https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html)

[maltalex]

It’s worth mentioning that Zoho comes in two flavors - zoho.com (US) and zoho.eu (EU) with corresponding data protections.

[mkranjec]

Gmail / GSuite.

Because I use rest of their services as well. I understand privacy wise it's not most the optimal solution and I might consider using alternatives in the future.

[Anunayj]

I do this too, I just forward ALL my mail into my personal gmail (which I don't usually give to anyone) and label it differently, and have them all set up to "Send mail as" from gmail. Email Deliverability is great (atleast to other gmail users, since the mail comes from gmail servers).

I don't like the idea of checking multiple mail accounts, and setting up a couple filters goes a long way in organization. and It costs me nothing. And in case my gmail gets suspended, I can easily switch to another service.

As for privacy, I don't really think mail should be used for any communication that can come bite you in future.

[dcminter]

I do this. Personal domain stuff is forwarded to my personal gmail account. Other domains are on GSuite. I have to say, it's good but has some surprisingly clunky bits. Mailing lists support, for example, is hung off of Groups and the UI has a musty antique flavour.

[CallMeMarc]

Mailbox.org - It’s cheap, does it’s job very well and is fully hosted in Germany.

https://mailbox.org/

[dcminter]

I use ImprovMX to forward messages to my actual email account, so changing email services should then be trivial.

Not answering the question directly, but since it allows you to use an arbitrary service it might be relevant.

I'm on the free service and have had no issues. I was nervous about it when I started: https://paperstack.com/moving_parts/

I have no affiliation with ImprovMX. I should probably upgrade to the paid service though now I think about it!

[Anunayj]

I use a similar service from: https://mailway.app/

They have their code open sourced, and you can self host it if you want. I personally did not bother since I do not use their service for outbound mail (which would definately get marked as spam) and I trust them for now. It also has a neat temporary mail plugin (which I put under a subdomain) that might come in handy sometimes.

[Tortoise]

Fastmail is good.

[Const-me]

Using the mail included in the web hosting, https://www.discountasp.net/

[jcstryker]

Like Protonmail, but less sketch.

https://tutanota.com/

[Rd6n6]

Less sketch?

[midnightGhost]

Tutanota here as well.

[t-3]

I'm also using tutanota.

[jehanrizla]

https://mailfence.com Great alternative to G-suite since it integrates also Calendar, Docs, Chat and collaborative workspaces

[dqv]

Mailinabox on Digital Ocean. I’ve been doing it since 2016 with no problems for several domains. https://mailinabox.email

[skydhash]

Namecheap Private Email

[TedDoesntTalk]

I use this too but am very disappointed in the number of emails I send that end up in friends’ and colleagues’ spam folders. And the content is not spam.

My only guess is that The ip addresses used by namecheap smtp servers have very poor reputation with , especially, outlook and Microsoft email servers.

You might think it’s not important… until you send to someone with an @outlook.com address or a company using ahosted Exchange solution from Microsoft.

[pwg]

> Who do you use to host your email?

No one. I host my email myself.

[derekzhouzhen]

Me too. You will fight a uphill battle with deliveribility to major providers like GMail but it is the price for freedom.

[Anunayj]

For anyone interested, it's very annoying!, You can GET EVERYTHING right, and the mail might still end up in spam (or not even delivered anywhere) with no reason given at ALL. But if you can get it working, it's worth it 10/10.

[shashasha2]

I host my own too.

[aprdm]

Fastmail.com, works pretty well! Moved away from Hey

[mips_avatar]

I use my Microsoft 365 subscription for my email hosting. Largely because the subscription is 80% off for employees.

[bckygldstn]

Gsuite. It's fine, plus google signin reduces the number of passwords I have to use.

[_s]

Just started with iCloud Beta’s custom domains, pretty smooth so far.

[dreamyfigment]

purelymail.com after I saw it posted here on HN.

[rishidevkota]

Yandex which is free of charge for custom domain

[hunter-2]

How is the deliverability on this? I've received a lot of spam over this and so i suspect poor deliverability

[ranguna]

Anonaddy and purelymail are amazing.