Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by thiht » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 1:25 PM UTC

If you're already in the Apple ecosystem, I'd recommend subscribing to iCloud+ for $1/month. It gives you a mailbox with:

- custom domain support

- wildcard redirections

- "hide my email"

If you have an iPhone, you can tweak the configuration directly from the Settings app, it's very convenient.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#62

Post by vpaulus » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 3:39 PM UTC

dotcoma wrote: post #27

chunkles wrote: post #2

Having seen people argue about this here before, my guess is you're going to get one of three recommendations. Zoho ( https://zoho.com ), Fastmail ( https://fastmail.com , Proton ( https://proton.me )

Or Tutanota https://tutanota.com/

+1 for Tutanota I never experienced any issue with any type of usage. (Using it with own domain.)

Also they have a good support, always answering within hours.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#63

Post by nodomain » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

Very happy with https://mailbox.org/en/ - they support custom domains as well and cost a fair price.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#64

Post by cassianoleal » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #51

cassianoleal wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been with them for a couple years. Also very happy with the service. Quite cheap. I use it with my own domain and its been stellar.

Do you use a mail forwarding service along with Posteo, since it doesn’t support custom domains on the service?

Yes, in a way. My DNS provider, LuaDNS, has a pseudo-record of type FORWARD [0] which sets up both the MX records and the forwarding.

Other than that, I set up SPF and DMARC.

[0] https://luadns.com/help.html#forward-record

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#65

Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:46 PM UTC

chunkles wrote: post #2

Having seen people argue about this here before, my guess is you're going to get one of three recommendations. Zoho ( https://zoho.com ), Fastmail ( https://fastmail.com , Proton ( https://proton.me )

Thank you! :)

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#66

Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:56 PM UTC

Thank you all for helping me find a new email service! Based on what I’ve read here I’m considering either Proton or Fastmail but I will research them a bit before I decide. Thank you everyone for taking your time to help! :)

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#67

Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:57 PM UTC

gepardi wrote: post #4

Fastmail Supports custom domains and I believe has a tool to migrate emails away from Gmail

Thank you for the suggestion and info!

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

#68

Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

pupppet wrote: post #58

gepardi wrote: post #4

Fastmail Supports custom domains and I believe has a tool to migrate emails away from Gmail

I’ve been with Fastmail for about 20 years, they’re the absolute best. My one gripe is the spam filtering. Plenty of block rules but it can’t be trained terribly well. That or it’s long given up on a mailbox my size.

Thanks for pointing that put, I will look into this a bit more

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

baliex wrote: post #6

gepardi wrote: post #4

Fastmail Supports custom domains and I believe has a tool to migrate emails away from Gmail

Second this. I switched recently and it’s been great. The tool to import all my email from gmail worked flawlessly.

Thanks for letting me know, this is really one of my biggest concerns right now so it’s great hearing from someone who actually transferred their inbox in the same way I intend too :)

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by katla » Thu, Dec 08, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

switch007 wrote: post #35

Just a warning that owning your domain means also owning the security of the domain. If you lose access to eg gmail or they ban you, nobody you care about will access your email. If your domain gets hijacked or you fail to renew, now a bad actor could receive all your email forever. (I use my own domain for email)

Thank you for the info! :)