Do you mean buying your own domain, and forward email sent to it to an email provider?
A lot of email providers have that option (with paid plans). For example
Basically that yeah, assuming that's the best way to go about it anyway.
I use proton mail and love the new addition of Proton pass. It makes spoofing emails for junk/sign ups super easy too.
Can integrate with Thunderbird via proton bridge too. Would recommend.
If you don't want to fully host it yourself (which I think it's wise), then it's a good solution.
If privacy is important to you, ProtonMail has a good reputation, but I haven't been keeping up with the latest developments in the area (there might be other providers that suit your needs / budget).
I recently bit the bullet and bought in to mxrouting’s lifetime account. 10GB, unlimited domains, unlimited accounts, “forever” (for the remainder of the time mxrouting exists) for the semi decent price of $100.
+1 for mxroute. I've been using them for several years with no trouble whatsoever.
I'm interested in this. I want to host my own Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Matrix, etc. servers but I find that not having access to appropriate password resetting is a deal breaker for not only me but for anyone I would like to join. I looked in to some email services but couldn't find one that wasn't charging more than it would cost to run the actual website
With a Lifetime plan, at least it's a one time purchase and I don't have to have yet another subscription eating away at my bank account
How do you like the service so far? Any issues with emails being marked as spam or being undeliverable?
No issues so far, though I’ve only had it for a couple weeks. From the sounds of it, they go above and beyond to make sure they stay off spam lists, going so far as to cancel accounts that are being used for marketing.
You do have a 300 outbound email limit per email account per hour, so that’s something to keep in mind. But I’d never butt up against that personally. But it could be an issue if you happen to get a lot of users, or someone decides to be a dick with “forgot my password” spam.
Also comes with NextCloud you can use for CalDAV and CardDav. It also comes with DNS, basic web hosting and ftp but you're limited to 10GB total.
Thanks for pointing this out - I may do this to move off Private Email, since that's just the one address.
Assuming that you do want to fully self host, my go-to is a postfix+mariadb+postfixadmin+spamassassin+opendkim stack. With rainloop as a webmail if required.
Avoid exim like the plague
I like Mailinabox
You can use it in the cloud or fully self-host on your own hardware if you want. (Assuming your ISP allows this)
I needed something that allows for unlimited aliases as I'm creating an email address for every service I sign up to.
I'm using UberSpace for 5€ a month which also allows for hosting websites. Very happy with them.
Not advice, can't fully vouch for this company, but they've got a great price. https://purelymail.com/pricing
I would go selfhosted and use a mai-in-a-box solution. Easy to setup, handles all the spam DNS settings etc and if you put it on an ip segment that is generally spammer-free, then you should have a fantastic solution (I habe used it myself for many years).
I host my own domain and DNS and point to a web hosted provider.
I was pretty happy with Proton mail, but moved because I wanted to provision more inboxes and the price per inbox didn't scale great, for me.
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