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I've been using fastmail.com for a long time and am satisfied, though it's on the expensive side and I haven't looked into every alternative.
If you want cheap email hosting for your own domain, mxroute.com has been around for a while and cranemail.com is new, but both are small companies run by people who know what they are doing (online acquaintances of mine if that matters).
For my own domains I'm using Migadu since they support unlimited domains per account. Quite happy with them..
Yes, I forgot Migadu. I played with it a little and it was nice, though I think it costs more now.
that's how i lost my first hotmail address 😢
I wonder if any comparable services don't re-use the address when it's on the service's domain, maybe after a grace period. I use fastmail mostly for my own domains though I do have some addresses on theirs. Certainly if you let a domain expire, the registrar will sell it to someone else. Seems similar.
Someone once offered me a nice chunk of cash for one of my domains. I might have accepted it if they didn't want the domain handed over immediately. It's a domain I receive some email through, so would have wanted a shutdown period to prevent at least some of the email for ending up with the domain's new owner.