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I need a single email with my custom domain. Any recommendations for another provider? Any reviews on Zoho?
Thank you for your time
1. Use webfaction's shared email service at http://webfaction.com and stick to IMAP. This is an old fashioned shared hosting system.
2. Use digital ocean or linode and build your own mail server.
I do #2 and have four domains and am happy with it. I don't have contact and calendar sync - that's the only problem but this doesn't really bother me. There are hundreds of open source CalDAV and CardDAV solutions available though for all platforms.
With these solutions you are free from the chains of a single vendor as they are easy to move and won't have to worry about getting shafted by Google/Microsoft etc. Three of the four domains I host are refugees from the recent live domains being shut down fiasco.
Or you could pay for Google apps and cross your fingers every day that they don't deprecate something you need.
They all suck from experience in vastly different ways. I'd do one of the following: 1. Use webfaction's shared email service at http://webfaction.com and stick to IMAP. This is an old fashioned shared hosting system. 2. Use digital ocean or linode and build your own mail server. I do #2 and have four domains and am happy with it. I don't have contact and calendar sync - that's the only problem but this doesn't reall…
Why not set up forwarders? Simply setup your email on whatever service(every domain registrar provides one), and forward emails to another gmail. In your gmail account setup a from address. Done.
The Microsoft solution for your problem is not Outlook.com - it's Office 365 and/or hosted Exchange. They have a slightly different -- in my opinion better and definitely faster - web UI for the latter.
Being a Google Apps user basically means you have a Google Account associated with that user. Being a hosted Exchange user does not imply that. In other words, you can use an Android phone with a Google Apps account, but with pa hosted Exchange account you cannot log in to a Windows Phone, you need a normal Microsoft Account. In my opinion this is good, because your email is not related to mobile purchases and so on.
I personally find the hosted Exchange/Office 365 solution much better, mostly because it's only about email (+office stuff, if you buy it). It's not polluted with anything else, it does only a few things but it does them well.
Fastmail.fm is a completely different option, I am using that as well, their biggest problems are: - lack of proper push email (on mobiles) - lack of good contact management
Calendar is coming soon as far as I understood, and they're the fastest.