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Cloudflare's email routing offering seems to be a good fit for this as far as I can tell.
No SMTP though, so that fixes 50% of the problem.
Oh yikes, good catch; I definitely thought they did smtp as well
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#252Also went looking for an alternative and moved everyting to mailbox.org...
Be aware that Mailbox.org allows any user to send emails as ("from") any other user via SMTP and these emails will look legit since they pass SPF and DKIM checks. Many consider this a security issue. There was a quite lengthy discussion about this in their forum but they deleted it since. They refused to fix it. Archive.org still has it. Content is in German (sorry): https://web.archive.org/web/20210123192856/https:/…
I thought about how I would fix that retaining the catch-all feature they have.
You can get mail from all non assigned names on your domain on the catch-all assigned account, if you enable that. You should also expect to be able to write from any of those non assigned names with this account.
If your account is the only one connected to that domain, everything is ok.
But if you let's say have 100 users-accounts on this domain, you could build a blacklist for the names that are assigned to other accounts (which would be cached, therefore could have delay), accept that the admin can impersonate all their users or lookup every assigned domain on each send. Am I missing something obvious?
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#253On https://etik.com, you can have an email address with 20 GB of storage and an alternative to Google Drive with 15 GB. It is hosted and developed in Switzerland by Infomaniak.
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#254Office 365 is a great deal. For 1 user its $70 per year, up to 6 its $100 per year. You get a lot of storage and all of office. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/outloo...
It's been said in other threads, but just to be complete. You need to have your domain with GoDaddy, which is batshit insane. Now, it it were a reputable domain company I wouldn't quite mind but this is GoDaddy we're talking about.
Absolutely, I had no idea that was a ridiculous and odd requirement
Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
#255Migadu.com supports unlimited domains, in case the core reason for you was having an email address with a custom domain. It is a paid service though.
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#256I have switched to FastMail a few months ago and are very happy with them!
Thank you.
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Another Migadu user here. They've been slow with the rollout for new features (the new alps webmail was promised over a year ago...) but overall, can't complain for the price I'm paying for my two domains (I'm on the $19/year plan).
I'm in the exact same position. I wish they posted more regular updates... I am not very confident this service will be around in 5 years as a result.
Same, the inactivity makes me nervous especially since they had such a big rebranding over a year ago -- makes me wonder where their priorities are. Fortunately, I'm glad I moved all my e-mailing to domains I owned to make moving easier in the future.
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#258Google Takeout will export all your mail in mbox format which is easily handled by mail programs like Apple Mail and Thunderbird and should let you sync everything to a new service (if that service won't let you transfer it themselves). I'm using iCloud+ from Apple. It's cheap at $1/mo for 50GB of space and lets me have my custom domains. $3/mo will get you family sharing and 200GB of space (if you want multiple acco…
> including Google where we've heard horror stories of getting locked out with no one to even contact
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[raises hand] Been there, done that.
Re: Ask HN: Best hosted alternative to Google Workspace for email?
#259Google Takeout will export all your mail in mbox format which is easily handled by mail programs like Apple Mail and Thunderbird and should let you sync everything to a new service (if that service won't let you transfer it themselves). I'm using iCloud+ from Apple. It's cheap at $1/mo for 50GB of space and lets me have my custom domains. $3/mo will get you family sharing and 200GB of space (if you want multiple acco…
I just moved my domain email over to Zoho following this news ($1/mo, was easy to set up). Seems to be working. Didn't feel like paying Google $6/mo.
I've been using Zoho for several years and I've been very happy. Only had 1 major outage (which was a bummer, to be honest) and I think they've improved their redundancy and reliability since.
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FastMail doesn't have tags. What it does have? Let me copy/paste my comment from another thread: They have subdomain addressing, which is kind of like plus addressing, but better (not all places let you sign up with plus addressing). I've got my own domain, for example: mydomain.com. So my fastmail email address is depingus@mydomain.com. But with subdomain addressing, I can sign up for services with unique email addr…
Fastmail now has labels. https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/
That's awesome! I didn't know!