I’m setting up my Nextcloud server and am at the point of needing to connect an email server. I’m not interested in selfhosting an email server (not yet anyway), and I don’t particularly like Proton as my current email provider (which was what I migrated to when de-Googling my life).
What email providers do y’all like that aren’t run by shady tech bros and are easy to integrate with your other selfhosted services?
I’ve been happy with Fastmail and its web & android clients so far but I havent tried to integrate it anywhere yet.
I want to thank everyone who replied. I did some research on most of these and think PurelyMail is the winner for me. Feel free to correct me if I got some details wrong. I want to give a shoutout to @mbirth for mentioning Disroot, which looks like a really interesting experiment in federated services.
Also, I know this post is really bending the rules for c/selfhosted, but connecting your selfhosted services to an email provider is essential, and having a reliable and affordable email provider just makes this weird hobby of ours a little easier.
My Rating (1-5) Service Website Annual Cost Only Email? 5 PurelyMail https://purelymail.com/ $10, pay for added storage Yes 4 MXRoute https://mxroute.com/ $50/year small plan Yes 4 Disroot https://disroot.org/ Free, pay to add storage and domains Yes, separated from other Disroot services 3 Fastmail https://www.fastmail.com/ $60 individual plan Yes-ish 3 Mailo https://www.mailo.com/ ~$14 premium plan No 3 Proton https://mail.proton.me/ $48/year plus plan $120/year unlimited plan No 2 Mailbox.org https://mailbox.org/ ~$14 light plan ~$42 standard Light plan 2 Migadu https://migadu.com/ $90 mini plan Yes 1 GMX https://www.gmx.com/mail/ Free, ad supported No I been using mailo.com for years now. It’s a small EU business that’s been in business for 20 years iirc. Never had an issue. Other than that, I predominately use aliases that forward to my main email address.
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Based in USA and using AWS? Hard pass. Even Stripe is bad enough, but I do understand that one.
Is this for me? Do you want email? Then yes, probably.
Well, you really can’t argue with that logic. LOL
I’m liking what I’m seeing here! Most other services try to be like Google, where you can’t get a mail account without also paying for drive, calendar, office, etc. All I want here is an email service, and this looks good and cheap for that.
Purelymail is nice. Stupid cheap and really easy.
Mailo.com. French company. They have quite a quirky UI. like one can tell it’s made by a backend guy and the junior version is made by his younger nephew but technical wise it’s perfect. All standards are there plus price is OK.
disroot is quite decent. I like their (privacy) vibe and the set of semi-independent services they provide.
Careful, I had a post like this locked almost a month ago.
FWIW, I went with purelymail, and it’s been pretty good. Basic, but solid.
I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.
Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.
