@chesheer I do wonder why Proton is not on your list? But some great suggestions here... Thanks for the question.
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@chesheer Perhaps consider https://purelymail.com/, that seems to generally follow your criteria and is 10 bucks per year or even smaller. I'm using it for almost two years without any issue.
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@craiglambie42 I already have Protonmail for some purposes. But I wouldn't consider it for my main email account because:
1) No IMAP/SMTP on free account.
2) Paid accounts are too expensive, I don't need most of their features.
3) Protonmail is target #1 for blocking by government. They shout too much about their privacy and encryption (and I don't actually believe them), so some governments hear them and act accordingly. -
@chesheer #Posteo is boring and working (boring is good). Its only downside IMHO is lack of support for BYOD (= bring your own domain).
Somebody mentioned #Purelymail – it's good and uses an, uhm, interesting stack.
#Fastmail is great, but even for me it has too many bells and whistles, so I don't use it myself (but certainly recommend).
It makes me happy they still have reply attribution (which I coded for them while still being a law student 20+ years ago):
Reply attribution
If you have quoted replies enabled, then the attribution line will appear above the quoted reply.It normally looks something like this:On...
Fastmail (www.fastmail.help)
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@km Wow, I envy you. I'm sure it feels great to see something you'd done still in use by many people!
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@chesheer As for #Purelymail – it relies on Apache James!
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@pedro AFAIK, Posteo doesn't support using your own domain.
As for hosting your own mail, I also tried it for some - too much hassle. But I've been using Racknerd for a VPS, and they didn't block my port 25. I remember that I even asked their support specifically about port 25. At least if nothing's changed since then (about two years ago). -
@chesheer been a very happy Posteo customer for years, absolutely stable and reliable. I'm on Migadu now, just because of the many aliases with wildcards feature i use extensively.
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@chesheer I'm giving @mailbox_org a try. So good so far.
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@chesheer one more vote for Posteo. Here in Germany, they have become quite mainstream and are used by many people not in IT in my bubble. It works reliably on any device, has fast service response times, and has some goodies like S/MIME certificates for a few euros per month. And it does what you want: email without any extras. I am pleased with them.
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@Andres @chesheer TIL there are more than one Posteo. He is referring to https://posteo.de/de, a German email provider.
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@WeirdWriter @chesheer interested in hearing about your final choice and experience after
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@chesheer happy posteo user for 7 years now. No complaints.
