One potential option is using CloudFlare email routing. You can use it with a regular public provider (gmail for example). CloudFlare will handle the MX side of things for your custom domain and route your emails to the public provider without requiring it to use the custom domain. The issue I’ve found is that it’s hard to set up a reply address to reply as the original email was received, so this may not work perfectly (emails look like they come from the gmail address for example). Does anyone know how to solve that part?
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Re: Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?
#22OVH's own "Personal Hosting" provides 10 emails (plus web and domain) for about €24 a year. (add VAT, if you live in a VAT state like me)
https://www.ovhcloud.com/it/web-hosting/personal-offer/
Disclaimers: I don't work for OVH; I use it consistently for my customers; Still, all my own/company stuff is self-hosted on my own Colo/AS/LIR.
Re: Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?
#23I'm using MXRoute ATM because it's cheap for multi domains, But its issue is that using alias will leak your real account - https://community.mxroute.com/t/disable-x-authuser-header/21...
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#24I can vouch for purelymail ( https://purelymail.com/ ), it's simply amazing. Their only rule is basically no marketing emails. It's also quite affordable compared to others.
I've used purelymail for two years and almost without problems.
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#25One potential option is using CloudFlare email routing. You can use it with a regular public provider (gmail for example). CloudFlare will handle the MX side of things for your custom domain and route your emails to the public provider without requiring it to use the custom domain. The issue I’ve found is that it’s hard to set up a reply address to reply as the original email was received, so this may not work perfec…
Afaik that’s not possible because cloudflare doesn’t offer smtp
(Correct me if I’m wrong. I’m currently using cloudflare email routing, would love to have reply as)
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#26I have several emails on custom domain and one on gmail.com.
Instead of searching for replacement of Google Workspaces I have setup Cloudflare Email Routing. It's free and with few clicks to setup all emails to my custom domain are now routed to gmail email account. This solves all my issues, since I'm almost never sent any emails from custom domains.
Re: Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?
#27I'm using Purelymail at the moment, working perfectly for me and my few catch-all domains.
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#28I'm using Purelymail at the moment, working perfectly for me and my few catch-all domains.
+1 for purelymail. Pricing is just unbeatable.
Re: Ask HN: Migadu? Postale? Mxroute? Or any other mail services using this model?
#29I've used Migadu for several years after switching from Google Apps. Technologically, I've been pretty satisfied. I have a lot of custom domains that I may want to use different users/mailboxes on and Migadu's pricing model makes that pretty easy. In 2020, there was some turmoil with Migadu where they nearly (or completely) doubled their prices and didn't communicate it well. I was paying 45/yr then abruptly started…
I left Migadu too after their pricing incident— it was terribly communicated imo and with a large increase like that you’d think they’d make darn sure you knew about it. I mean, how do you know they won’t do it again next year? Haven’t had a single issue with mxroute across multiple domains. Can’t recommend it strongly enough.
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#30Just host your own mail server and you can have as many accounts you want - I have more than a thousand since I use special addresses when communicating with anyone who is not friend or family. If you worry over reliability - which in my experience is not a problem to be worried over given the tenacity of SMTP in attempting to deliver messages to temporarily off-lined hosts - you could arrange a reciprocal agreement with someone you trust to host a backup (MX) server for your domain(s). You won't have to deal with commercial plans, virtue signalling, filtering, bankruptcies (other than your own) or any of the other bothersome irritants which can be encountered when dealing with commercial entities. People will tell you it is impossible to host your own mail, that it takes enormous investments in time, that you'll be inundated in spam, that your outgoing mail will not be accepted by the likes of Google and Microsoft and more dire warnings of mayhem and misfortune for those who do not pay someone else to do this work for them. Nearly all of this is untrue, hosting a mail server is no black magic. Just make sure to configure the thing correctly, using a smart host to take care of outgoing mail - this is most likely mandated by your IAP - and DKIM/SPF/... to please those hosts which require it. Use Spamassassin and (optionally) greylistd for spam filtering, this will take care of the spam problem. All of this can be run on a SBC like a Raspberry Pi.
Source: I've hosted my own mail for more than 25 years now, taking it with me from ISP to IAP, from country to country, even through a period where I only had dialup (the consequence of moving to the countryside - now I have gigabit fibre in the same location) by having an arrangement with a friend who ran backup MX for me. Linux + Exim + Spamassassin + greylistd + Dovecot + Sieve is all it takes, all of it is free, running a Raspberry Pi (or similar) costs a pittance. An additional advantage is that you'll be ready for the decentralised future of the 'net.