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Tommaso Gagliardoni Mar 9, 2025

I am looking for a reliable mail hosting provider, with 2FA, unlimited aliases (including catch-all * ), POP+SMTP+IMAP, no mobile app required, with configurable domain but not bundled to the provider being the registrar. Possibly based in EU/Switzerland.

Discarded options:
- I am moving away from Gandi.
- Infomaniak seems to require registering domain with them.
- Zoho based in UK.
- MXroute does not seem to offer 2FA.
- Autistici/Inventati only with one of their domains (not configurable).
- Fastmail based in Australia.
- Mailcheap based in USA.

Thankful for any suggestions 😀

#email #hosting #gandi #eu #2fa #zoho #infomaniak #mailcheap #mxroute #fastmail #AutisticiInventati

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Coding Mar 21

@tomgag
I'm curious. Were you able to write to Gmail accounts without problems?

I'm not sure what you mean with 2FA for IMAP/POP, I guess it's for the webmail, right?

If you can find a cheap vps provider that does not harass you in EU, I'm interested.

Currently using a 20$/y vps which I setup myself with OpenBSD, OpenSMTP and IMAP.
I am able to write to Gmail accounts, but most of the times the message is filtered as "spam" because of the IP range in which my vps is. After "whitelisting", they can receive my emails.

I am considering the following setup so I relay mails to home server and can purge vps at any time.
https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/smtp_via_wireguard_tunnels

This would work for me, but it's only you who knows your use case :)

ExoticSilicon.com - SMTP over wireguard

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Tommaso Gagliardoni

@coding yes, I mean 2FA for webmail. Not for the mailbox itself (that wouldn't make sense since there is no 2FA for the POP/IMAP access) but for the admin panel, which I consider more sensitive.

So far I have tried "in-depth" Infomaniak, Mailbox, and Mailfence. They all have pros and cons, but overall they work well, I didn't have any problem reaching any other email address. Of the three, I have found Mailfence a bit more limited/buggy, although still OK-ish.

I have no experience in mail self-hosting, sorry, that is somewhere in my "When I will be a grown-up" list :)

Anyway, anything is better than Gandi at this point IMHO. How to kill a good business, really...