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Custom Domain Email

I self host pretty much everything, but one of the services I find makes more sense to not self host is an email server.

I’ve got a few domains I’d like to have emails for, and usually I’d go for Tutanota or protonmail. But in this instance I’m looking for something dirt cheap. These domains are for a hobby club so I’m much less concerned with privacy like I usually would be. Anybody got any recommendations?

So far namecheap seems like my best option for under $8/month. They would bundle with my domain registration and I’m assuming having both on the same service would make things pretty seamless to set up.

Not crazy concerned with privacy for these particular accounts. Namecheap or similar is reputable enough.

Moonrise2473 ,

If need unlimited cheap accounts: MXroute. Sometimes he does lifetime promos. For webmail he has a custom version of roundcube with some paid plugins that have a Gmail like skin or another paid webmail like crossover. He used to offer afterlogic webmail but then stopped "because nobody's using that and it's hard to set for alias domains". Pity because I liked the aesthetic.
Can set forwarding from unlimited aliases to Gmail but this is monitored. If you receive (and forward) too much spam or use it to send thousands of useless activity notifications, he's going to block or throttle that because he wants to keep his sender reputation high. For example he doesn't forward any email from Facebook or Wordfence notifications

If need a single inbox: Zoho mail. Can set a catch all on unlimited alias domains that goes in the same inbox. And if a specific address needs to be blocked, for example you signed up to temu using temu@example.com and then they're bombarding you with endless spam and ignoring your stop requests, you can set to reject all emails directed to that temu@ account. Emails can be forwarded but only if you set a custom filter in the web mail, it's a bit limited

I am paying for both, monthly for Zoho and a lifetime for mxroute (lifetime = mxroute it's a single man operation, so it's not my lifetime rather... *KNOCKS WOOD*)

alexdeathway ,
@alexdeathway@programming.dev avatar

zoho mail it's has free tier.

Moonrise2473 ,

I am using Zoho mail and I like it a lot but there are two disadvantages:

  1. the free tier has no IMAP support
  2. The web app for some reason doesn't allow to login to two separate accounts at the same time. Only the electron app, that's just a glorified WebView of the web app, allows multiple account support, for some reason. I have three paid accounts ($1/month) and I'm a bit annoyed by that, I have to use three different browsers or Firefox containers to switch accounts.

For the rest is excellent, the spam filter can be finely tuned in the admin panel like "block all domains like xxx" or "block all emails that contain those words". And you can set to bounce "address not found" to annoy the worst offenders that don't respect your privacy. And after a very short training (1 week!), it's very rarely wrong, unlike Gmail. If it's in spam, it's definitely spam, if it's in the inbox it's 95% ok. Unfortunately you can't block entire TLDs like .su or .monster which are exclusively used by spammers

And the webmail is very pretty and chock full of features never saw anywhere else in a web client. For example, you can add a task or add a note to an email and you can tag another user and have a parallel conversation around the content of it. Like tagging a colleague to ask opinion on that. The web client can also add IMAP accounts from other services, and you switch between them. It keeps them separate, doesn't import emails like Gmail (you can add Gmail/Hotmail/whatever but you can't add another Zoho email! Infuriating!). It's like having a "web version of thunderbird".

solrize ,

mxroute.com

Cipher ,
@Cipher@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

PurelyMail is popping too

ThillyGooth ,

https://mxroute.com/
or
https://www.fastmail.com/

I picked up a cheap lifetime account on mxroute a while back and have been pretty happy with it.

funkajunk ,
@funkajunk@lemm.ee avatar

ionos.com is $1/month and you can use external domain names. That plan includes the cost of a domain name as well, so you can transfer the external domain over if you really like it.

voracitude ,

IONOS don't support 2048-bit DKIM keys though, which I consider to be a pretty hefty point against them.

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