Im tried of giving my data to google for all my email needs. Preferably I would like to use the thunderbird client.
I also have a number of self hosted services. I used to run my own email server, but ATT no longer allows the ports open and I want to move away from self hosting that solution. Figured I would ask people what they use here, since Im assuming others are in a similar situation.
Any suggestions?
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Some services Ive been looking at:
- Cheapest seems to be namecheaps own offerings: https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
- Proton mail seems to be good, but I would have to pay extra for the Thunderbird integration by the look of things.
I use posteo.
If you’re thinking of using your own domain, I would suggest using forwardemail.net
I have been using purelymail with my own domains, and at $10 a year with no limit on domains or users under those domains, it’s amazing value.
Second this, I’ve been using them for a couple of years and the service is rock solid.
Third this. I use it for my personal vps’/vms/etc. email sending and liked it so much I replaced o365 send for machine accounts at work with it and it’s been sending 30k emails a month to my o365 domain (mostly reports programatically sent from one program/excel sheet [yah I know, don’t judge us, it works] to one or a set of users who have 0365 email accounts on my work domain) with no trouble for over a year now. I pay as I go on that account but it’s usually 17-25 dollars a month, way less than what I was paying when I had a smaller subset of current senders on o365 and with way less pain because it supports less annoying for programming methods of authentication without having to whitelist ips, which was often impossible because people moved their laptops around and sent from different locations.
If you want free, I’d recommend Protom Mail.
For paid, I really like Mailbox.org and Posteo. They work with IMAP/POP3, CardDAV, and CalDAV
And how would you use Tbird on a free subscription? The bridge is a subscriber service.
Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, and Posteo are all good.
Proton and Tuta have free offerings. Posteo and mailbox have the cheapest paid offering, but posteo doesn’t allow custom domains.
Tuta won’t work w/ Thunderbird, but they do have a desktop app.
Proton should work with their bridge.
It works fine for me fwiw
Mxroute.com look for a discount offer since they have lots of good ones.
Using Fastmail
- works with 1Password to generate masked emails
- plus and subdomain addressing
In case those features are important to you
If you want free tier with good privacy practices, Proton is going to be the best option.
I have several paid webhost accounts already, so I just use those for email. Any important messages (which are increasingly rare) are saved to PDF and stored offline (business/tax/medical info, etc.), and the rest is purged once read/sent.
I have started using Mailbox.org since about a year with several custom domains. Its around 3 €/$ per month for the basic tier which also includes some cloud storage and an online office suite (of which neither I use). I’ve been happy with it.
I have several addresses at cock.li. Uptime is not the best, around 98%, but free. According to their policy they don’t collect any personal data, but they comply with legal requests. https://cock.li/help
You can select from a lot of domains, some of them ar normal like firemail.cc or airmail.cc, some of them are funny like aaathats3as.com, some of them are edgy like cocaine.ninja or national.shitposting.agency, some of them are racist like nuke.africa or hitler.rocks
proton
I’m using UberSpace for 5€/month for a few small web projects and for emails. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases. However, you have to configure it using console commands via SSH. But it’s all explained in their documentation.
About a year ago, I trialed both Proton Mail and Tuta mail. Proton mail worked out better for my needs, but YMMV. 
One nice thing about switching providers is that it gives you the opportunity to rid yourself of years of built-up cruft and spam.
Take a look at Tuta
