Gandi may also be an option here - a domain registered with them comes with two free mailboxes, each with a few GBs of space and calendar support.
(Yes, yes, this is the same company that lost the data on their cloud servers.)
Moving Away from Gmail
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#22It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers - they fulfill all the requirements mentioned such as a custom domain, text search, and IMAP access.
G suite is pretty expensive for email, presumably because you can only buy it bundled up with all the other stuff.
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#23Unaffiliated, I found migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html ) to be extremely easy to set up and having a nice ui to work with. Gives you only the basics but that's all you need. As they say, storage space is not an issue in the 21st century, so the only differentiator between plans is the only thing that matters: the number of outgoing emails. You can have as many domains, as many aliases and as many address…
I second this, i've been using it for a few years and it's very easy to setup. Reliable and cheap.
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#24It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers - they fulfill all the requirements mentioned such as a custom domain, text search, and IMAP access.
GSuite has some quirks when it comes to personal usages. For example, you can't use it for Family Groups, which allows me to share a YouTube Premium account with my wife.
Pretty sure a PurelyMail account will also not work for these things.
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#25I am very surprised a "one man show" was the author's final choice here: What if the one man gets hit by a bus? FastMail is probably worth the increased cost to avoid that concern alone. But in general, I am excited to see anyone moving to their own email domain, decentralized is how email was always supposed to be. EDIT: A huge terms issue with PurelyMail is "The Company may, at its sole discretion, terminate servic…
Also if cost is a concern for Fastmail, there's Mailbox.org which is a very reliable alternative.
Been a customer theirs for 3 years not and they’ve been excellent
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#26It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers - they fulfill all the requirements mentioned such as a custom domain, text search, and IMAP access.
Indeed, it does. Until suddenly it doesn't. The posted article explains with examples how it happens to some people.
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#27It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers - they fulfill all the requirements mentioned such as a custom domain, text search, and IMAP access.
The author talks about the risks of single point of failure being Google/a Google account, and their lengthy and regularly amended Terms of Service. This would arguably be true of Office 365 as well.
Keep in mind that in G-Suite you can also enable email routing which will enable you to create full backups of emails
https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en
> These options include rejecting, quarantining, or delivering email with modifications. For example, you can route mail to Gmail and an external server or set policies that vary by organizational unit.
That way Gmail becomes a single point of failure like any other service; you will only lose the mail which didn't arrive during the outage, which will then usually be resent at a later time. But you wouldn't care that much if they lock you out, since you then can change the MX records to point to the external server.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Zoho Mail only costs $2 more per year vs PurelyMail (it's shown on PurelyMail's website along with other competitors) and also avoids the "one man show" problem. I'm not sure saving $2 a year is worth using a self-proclaimed (according to its website) beta service. Then again Gmail was in beta for many years.
Indeed. I honestly would never go cheap on email again. People have traditionally expected it to be free, but it's the most crucial point of my online presence: I need to be able to rely on it and it needs to be good. In my opinion, the fact that people would pay more for Netflix than their email provider is kinda crazy, when you think about their relative importance.
The majority of people are probably also only using that e-mail to have somewhere for their Netflix receipts to go.
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#30Unaffiliated, I found migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html ) to be extremely easy to set up and having a nice ui to work with. Gives you only the basics but that's all you need. As they say, storage space is not an issue in the 21st century, so the only differentiator between plans is the only thing that matters: the number of outgoing emails. You can have as many domains, as many aliases and as many address…
I've tried Migadu and I much prefer FastMail: https://www.fastmail.com
They have full DNS capabilities and very nice UI (minimal JS, loads super fast).