Looking for a email-provider where i can host my own domain

fraydabson, 9 months ago

I’ve been using fast mail for about 6 months and have enjoyed it.

surgeoffury, 9 months ago

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.

makingrain, 9 months ago

Late to the party on this one, but Tutanota has been great for me. I prefer the fully encrypted storage. They recently put their prices up, though. It was €12 a year.

leaf, 9 months ago

Proton does have SMTP via Protonmail Bridge

c10l, 9 months ago

I’ve been using Posteo with my own domain for a few years.

You do need an email forwarder in addition to the hosting since, as you noticed, they don’t support that use-case natively.

My DNS provider, LuaDNS, does that for me. I pay for their Basic tier (US$29/year) but only because I’m using a lot more than what the free tier provides. I did get away with free for about a year though, so that could in fact be sufficient for you, if you decide to go that route.

moddy, 9 months ago

Sounds interesting. Never heard before. On their page I see the “ksuite standard” for free with 2 emails/15GB. The next upgrade to 5 adresses/3TB(!) would be 3,29€.

mea_rah, 9 months ago

I haven’t seen anyone recommend Infomaniak Mail. I think it’s great option. It’s €1.50/month for 5 mailboxes with unlimited storage. You can add multiple domains and mailbox aliases for free. (no limit on either as far as I can tell) You get calendar and contacts as well. They also offer entire office suite, but that’s going to cost more.

They offer pretty good webmail interface, that’s not just Roundcube or other OSS webmail solutions. (which are okay, but usually limited by the fact that it’s IMAP on the backend) They offer apps for mobile calendar/contact sync and they also have (quite new, but already very good IMO) email app. These are all open source. You obviously have IMAP, CalDAV and such if you want to use your own client.

It’s not some one man show provider, they are pretty big cloud provider in Switzerland. So you also get custommer support that from my experience is pretty fast to respond.

surgeoffury, 9 months ago

Thanks for this, actually first time I see this service mentioned anywhere.

mea_rah, 9 months ago

I really like their embrace of open source. Seeing their email app on f-droid first is quite refreshing. And when they started developing it, I just subscribed to github issues with features I considered crucial for me so that I’d get notification once they were implemented.

How often do you get at least changelog with closed source apps? I’d have to check every couple months whether they implemented features I need had this not been developed in the open.

solrize, 9 months ago

Try mxroute.com. Full price is already not bad, and they have ridiculously cheap promos around December.

admin, 9 months ago

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.

stagen, 9 months ago

I bought a Synology disk station a few years ago that has faithfully served as a NAS, website host and email host. Only recurring thing I pay for now is the domain name and it works splendidly.

RegalPotoo, 9 months ago

I’ve been using www.migadu.com - can recommend

bfly75, 9 months ago

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.

JoeHill, 9 months ago

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).

zlatiah, 9 months ago

mailbox.org and skiff are „too expensive“ with 3€/month.

Ah... I do use mailbox.org and I've self-hosted with docker-mailserver before.

I agree, selfhosting mail is a really big pain, and at least where I live most ISPs don't open the ports necessary for mailservers, so I had to spin up my own server & it was more expensive than just using a mail provider. Could potentially be the cheapest option if I could host it from home & just use a RasPi or something

I'm happy with mailbox.org; the Standard Tier price is 2.50 Euro/mo if paid in full if that helps. Probably not the cheapest option especially since it's not unlimited, but they do allow domain matches at Standard tier or above, and there are other goodies like calendar/video conferencing/cloud storage & stuff.

EddyBot, 9 months ago

yea also custom domain with catch-all + custom rules on mailbox.org is hilariously powerful and allow you to use an own email address + its own folder for every website without actually creating any alias beforehand

I also have a hard time understanding how 2,5€ a month is to expensive for someone who most likely owns Apple devices since iCloud is really awful to use without at least one Apple device

czech, 9 months ago

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.

Tillyface89, 9 months ago

I use forwarding service to send everything to my family’s standard gmail accounts. Everyone just gets a full subdomain and short address.

Starfish, 9 months ago

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

u202307011927, 9 months ago

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