Sorry, this has been brought up a number of times obviously, but I figured I’d still give it a shot. I’m not self-hosting email, because it sounds like a huge PITA. I was looking for a decent email provider, but coming up short for now, wonder what people here are using. My requirements:

  • support for a custom domain,
  • support for hooking up my applications via SMTP (just to send, like, update notifications, nothing spammy),
  • (optional, but would be good to have) nice apps for Android/iOS.

Things I’ve tried (all paid subscriptions):

  • Fastmail - felt excellent until I tried actually using it and found that 1) my SMTP messages are lost/delayed by a few hours. 2) SMTP-sent messages are not in the Sent folder, which makes things really hard to track. More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/181tnuf/experience_with_fastmail_as_a_new_user/
  • Proton Mail - doesn’t have SMTP support, wat.
  • Purelymail - feels a bit hackish to me, and I don’t want my wife to input weird IMAP settings on her phone.

Any good recommendations? Thanks a lot!

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    After running my own server for a few years, I got tired of the maintenance. I used ProtonMail for a while, and I didn’t mind using their app on my phone and the Bridge on my computer, but my parents kept forgetting to check and update it so Thunderbird would lose connectivity once in a while.

    I have since migrated to Infomaniak. It’s based in Switzerland as well, you can use your own domain and it’s cheap (€1.50 per month for 5 addresses with unlimited storage). I haven’t tried their smartphone app (I use the one from Apple on my iPhone), but I’ve heard good things about it.

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      1 year ago

      Infomaniak

      Wow, I’ve never heard about this one before. Thanks, I’ll check it out!