I’m setting up my Nextcloud server and am at the point of needing to connect an email server. I’m not interested in selfhosting an email server (not yet anyway), and I don’t particularly like Proton as my current email provider (which was what I migrated to when de-Googling my life).
What email providers do y’all like that aren’t run by shady tech bros and are easy to integrate with your other selfhosted services?
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I want to thank everyone who replied. I did some research on most of these and think PurelyMail is the winner for me. Feel free to correct me if I got some details wrong. I want to give a shoutout to @mbirth for mentioning Disroot, which looks like a really interesting experiment in federated services.
Also, I know this post is really bending the rules for c/selfhosted, but connecting your selfhosted services to an email provider is essential, and having a reliable and affordable email provider just makes this weird hobby of ours a little easier.
My Rating (1-5) Service Website Annual Cost Only Email? 5 PurelyMail https://purelymail.com/ $10, pay for added storage Yes 4 MXRoute https://mxroute.com/ $50/year small plan Yes 4 Disroot https://disroot.org/ Free, pay to add storage and domains Yes, separated from other Disroot services 3 Fastmail https://www.fastmail.com/ $60 individual plan Yes-ish 3 Mailo https://www.mailo.com/ ~$14 premium plan No 3 Proton https://mail.proton.me/ $48/year plus plan $120/year unlimited plan No 2 Mailbox.org https://mailbox.org/ ~$14 light plan ~$42 standard Light plan 2 Migadu https://migadu.com/ $90 mini plan Yes 1 GMX https://www.gmx.com/mail/ Free, ad supported No I’ve been happy with Fastmail and its web & android clients so far but I havent tried to integrate it anywhere yet.
Runbox (Norway) is a good option, good privacy protection and outside of EU chat control zone
disroot is quite decent. I like their (privacy) vibe and the set of semi-independent services they provide.
Purelymail is nice. Stupid cheap and really easy.
Gmx for automatic emails to myself since the Calibre days. Maybe there is something better now.
I’ve using purelymail.com for a few years with my own domain, never had one problem, and they’re cheap.
That’s the most lucrative desk I’ve seen I think.
Purelynail has been awesome.
I’ve enjoyed ProtonMail quite a bit the last year.
They are becoming like gmail
In what way?
Centralised server, services. Logging IPs. Partially open source. Not all apps on F-droid
Ah shoot. Didn’t realize this was the self-hosted community. My bad.
Careful, I had a post like this locked almost a month ago.
FWIW, I went with purelymail, and it’s been pretty good. Basic, but solid.
Fastmail. It’s been around forever and it just works. And they don’t do anything weird with SMTP/IMAP.
mailbox dot org is also pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of their 2FA implementation.
Plus, if you are a 1Password user, it integrates to give you randomly generated email addresses.
Fastmail is probably the best, but their pricing is egregious.
I was with them for a decade or so but with a large archive of emails and multiple users i couldn’t justify the cost.
When did you try mailbox.org last? they improved 2FA this year. It is now TOTP + possibility to make application passwords. Finally works great!
https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/security-and-privacy/how-to-use-two-factor-authentication-2fa/
Ah very nice, good to hear they addressed that. It was the only real deciding factor last time I moved my mail around ~2 yrs ago
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I use inleed.xyz. It’s free, has IMAP/SMTP access and you can have as many accounts as you want. It’s limited to 1GB of storage shared between all accounts though.
I can highly recommend MXroute. Just works. Great for integrations.
Sorry what integrations?
Apps that need to send emails or receive emails.
I have plenty of server storage. Can mx route be used almost like a mail proxy? Mail stored locally and mx route used for just receiving and sending? Needs to be spouse friendly as well. Or if anyone else can recommend something else that fits that bill more.
I only use it for automations (both send and receive); I’m on Proton for regular mail. They’ve got a few different web interfaces, so I think you can get spouse approval. Not sure on local storage (outside of POP/IMAP).
Came here to say this. They even have decently priced “lifetime” accounts. Though that price raises by a reasonable amount every year or so.
Love the lifetime deal. 10GB across any number of accounts. That’s what I’ve got.
Tuta ?
tuta isn’t “easy to integrate” :(
I regret going all in on Tuta :(
I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.
Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.
Mxroute for me. Or Zoho.
My small team using mxroute for a few years now.
Its fine. Its cheap. Support is very responsive.
It’s great… And having Jar reply to your question/doubts in Discord almst in real time is a big plus.
I have had delivery issues with Zoho in the past. Just me?
I didn’t experience that (or I just didn’t notice it).
