I am using migadu after recommendation from drew devault. It's nice if you have a couple domains you want mail for.
Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#32Thank you for making this service available. For entrepreneurs who like to launch new ideas with custom domains, pricing models like the one here is a HUGE savings over pay-per-account (or domain) pricing found at most major email providers. Further, it's not easy making much money charging just $10/year, even if the business gets quite popular... so again, thanks for making it available.
I'm curious, what are your thoughts on Zoho mail. You can use your custom domains even in their free tier
Well, I'm no expert and I'm not in any position to say anything negative about Zoho Mail... but the free tier you mention seems to allow for one domain. So it likely won't work if you have, say, 5 active domains you want to receive and send email.
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#33These tiny services are cool. I have the cheapest account on Migadu[1] for all my random custom domain emails. 1. https://www.migadu.com
Plus one. Great, small Swiss shop with decent support and response time. Never had any issues with them.
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#34Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.
Great work, and as somebody who self hosted my own email from 2013 to 2021, I don’t envy you. What broke me down was Google starting to spam my emails that were replies to conversations that I did not start — even with a stellar domain reputation and DKIM, SPF, reverse DNS, greylisting, everything set up right.
I hope you have personal contacts on the Gmail team at Google, much as I’d like for this to be a joke.
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#35I have a question: if this is hosted on AWS, what (and I'm sure there's something, I just don't know what ) is stopping Amazon from accessing my mail and using it for whatever?
I believe this is part of the AWS's explicit policy, possibly also in the terms of service:
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/
It would be crazy suicidal for their cloud business to break it, and possibly open them up to lawsuit.
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#36Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.
How are you doing that trial proof of work?
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#37These tiny services are cool. I have the cheapest account on Migadu[1] for all my random custom domain emails. 1. https://www.migadu.com
Thanks so much for sharing this! Just spent half an hour reading about this hidden gem and will switch all my projects to them!!
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#38I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience. It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)
> It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk, especially considering data is encrypted at rest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
I actually get asked about this semi-frequently. Probably nobody could replace me as a _developer_ on Purelymail, but I've been training my brother to handle extended maintenance and to have handover credentials if anything happens to me personally. (This might be in the FAQ?)
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#39I have a question: if this is hosted on AWS, what (and I'm sure there's something, I just don't know what ) is stopping Amazon from accessing my mail and using it for whatever?
Encryption, if it is set up properly.
Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email
#40Thank you for making this service available. For entrepreneurs who like to launch new ideas with custom domains, pricing models like the one here is a HUGE savings over pay-per-account (or domain) pricing found at most major email providers. Further, it's not easy making much money charging just $10/year, even if the business gets quite popular... so again, thanks for making it available.
I'm quite happy with Migadu for own domain use. I have a dozen that are unlikely to receive email but good to be able to receive them nonethelrss - migadu is great for that as you can add as many domains as you want.
Calendar feature is sorely missing though it seems this service also doesn't have it. I guess calendar is a pain to set up/troubleshoot timezone issues, etc