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Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use?

I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification emails from my server doesn’t seem worth it to me. I’ve not looked into what all else comes with Proton’s Business features, but i’m not really running a business or trying to start one up.

What do you use? do you like it? How’s the cost/features?

NettoHikari ,
@NettoHikari@social.fossware.space avatar

I have a VM at OVH that’s a couple years old by now. I pay only a couple € for it each month. On that I run Mailcow and it works just fine.

LachlanUnchained ,

I used to have a zoho email, they let you do custom domains for one email for free. And smtp.

At least they used to.

I stopped using it, cause the app just didn’t vibe with me. I now have Microsoft cause my business has grown to the point I get value from it.

But a free custom domain email was nice when starting out :)

cnx ,
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We use Maddy, which is pretty easy to set up.

ghostface ,

I have modoboaRunning on a 8gb droplet for 20 a month. Hosting over 10 domains. No issues, smooth transition on upgrades.

admin ,

I use dreamhost.com to purchase and manage my domains. Email service comes at no extra charge. I use it for my 4 Fediverse servers

peter ,

Self host postfix with quite a bit of spam fighting measures. Get way way less spam than I did on Gmail

dartanjinn ,

I like sendgrid. They have a free smtp service that works great.

ninjan ,

I run a VPS through InterServer, pay about 20 USD per month but that’s for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which of course is overkill for mail, but I use it for a lot more. Like Lemmy.

You can absolutely do it with 1 Core 2 GB and that’s more like 5 USD per month.

I use iRedMail which is open source and they have good documentation. But fair warning that it’s quite a bit of work self hosting mail and getting your mail to not end up in peoples spam folder. Still very much worth it though.

hitagi ,

My domain registrar (Netim) comes with free email so I use that. They’re kind of expensive though.

stown ,
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I host an SMTP relay on a cheap IONOS VM. Had to ask support to open port 25 but that seems standard now. At home I have Mailcow running and configured to use my SMTP relay. Firewall on the IONOS VM prevents all connections except those from my home IP range.

InverseParallax ,

Back when I had more time I set up mailinabox, before that I’d set up postfix and Cyrus.

Somewhere along the line the sasl and spam management became obnoxious, but I have to make a new solution soon and retire those cloud vms.

It works well for me, but managed usually makes more sense, consider Google apps for your purposes.

poVoq ,
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If you buy any domain from OVH, you can enable a single 5gb email account and 10mb webspace for free on it. The latter is maybe useful for some fail-over, but the email is definitely very cool for sending out notifications and such.

shadowbert ,
@shadowbert@kbin.social avatar

Mailcow dockerised is a solid option. It also has a really nice built in DNS checker which was very useful for getting that set up right.

pdavis ,
@pdavis@lemmy.world avatar

I currently use Protonmail but for some time I used hMailServer on Windows (www.hmailserver.com).

RegalPotoo ,
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Recently signed up with migadu.com, been great so far

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