Zoho Mail - http://www.zoho.com/mail/
There is a free signup with option for 1 custom domain.
I use it, works great.
Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
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Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#12https://mail.yandex.ru - Putin`s guarded mail!
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#13Why 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 issue with this is that you still expose your gmail address (not very professional). The recipient will see something like "Sent from name@domain.com on behalf of username@gmail.com".
Not necessarily. Google pushes that option because it's easier to set up but you can send from Gmail through your registrar's or whoever's SMTP server. Your Gmail account acts like an e-mail client in that scenario.
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#14One start-up I use to be at used Zimbra, http://www.zimbra.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFfCgIJpSf4 --- Worked good, moved fast, nice UI.
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#15Most domain and cheap hosting providers give you a free SMTP server for domains.
Use this in conjunction with a normal Gmail account. Incoming mail is sent to your Gmail via a simple redirect.
For seamless outgoing mail, configure Gmail to send via the SMTP server for your domain.
For bonus points run http://gmvault.org/ somewhere to keep a perfectly restorable copy of your Gmail in case of disaster (this can be restored correctly with all labels intact unlike many simple IMAP or mbox backup solutions)
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#16It is hard to find a good provider at a reasonable price. At the end, I went with Gandi and I am using only IMAP. My wife is using both IMAP and the provided webmail. But please notice that I am based in Europe. I am not sure where the mail servers are located. If you are on the West coast and the servers are all in Paris, then it will not be that fast.
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#17They 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…
I don't think building my own mail server would be feasible. I'll check out web faction. Thanks.
It's not as hard as it looks
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#18I generally use mailgun.com for email forwarding. It's not ideal when replying, but it does the job to start with.
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#19Zoho Mail - http://www.zoho.com/mail/ There is a free signup with option for 1 custom domain. I use it, works great.
I use zoho too, with 1 custom domain for about 2 years without issues. It's free. The email interface is kind clumsy, but I rarely use it. I go on pop3 mostly.
On the negative side, zoho is a USA based company.
Re: Ask HN: After Google Apps and Outlook, which email provider for custom domain?
#20I've been using Zoho for my custom domain e-mail, and it's worked very well for me so far (almost a year).
I hope they don't drop their free e-mail service, but if both Google and Outlook have stopped, they might consider it :( .