Recommended email providers?
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?
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 purelymail.com $10, pay for added storage Yes 4 MXRoute mxroute.com $50/year small plan Yes 4 Disroot disroot.org Free, pay to add storage and domains Yes, separated from other Disroot services 3 Fastmail www.fastmail.com $60 individual plan Yes-ish 3 Mailo www.mailo.com ~$14 premium plan No 3 Proton mail.proton.me $48/year plus plan $120/year unlimited plan No 2 Mailbox.org mailbox.org ~$14 light plan ~$42 standard Light plan 2 Migadu migadu.com $90 mini plan Yes 1 GMX www.gmx.com/mail/ Free, ad supported No
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