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submitted 3 days ago by Gobbel2000@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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I was thinking about how to improve my email situation, because at the moment I am using an address of a commercial mail provider, which obviously brings some concerns of lock-in.

While fully self-hosting the email is an option, I am a bit wary of this, because having a working email is very critical and I do trust the commercial providers to give better uptime and reliability than my old server in the closet. Does anyone have experience hosting an email service and what is it like/could you recommend it?

The other option that I am more inclined to is having the email hosted by some cloud provider, but using an address under my personal domain name. The point would be of course that I could change the email provider while keeping the address. Which providers supporting this could you recommend? What is the process like linking a domain to an email host?

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[–] drive_desaster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I hosted my email myself with mailu iirc. Once I had it setup and working correctly my only problem was that any mails I send would end in the recipients spam folder (Probably because the IP of the server I used was from an ASN that allowed anyone to host a mail server without restrictions).

I moved to mxroute a few months ago and payed 30$ for 3 years. They let you bring your own domains (unlimited at no charge). I'm happy and didnt have any problems so far but their website for ordering is borderline unusable if you want to compare their plans/prices.