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