@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).

@km Wow, I envy you. I'm sure it feels great to see something you'd done still in use by many people!
Yeah, using Fastmail was great back in the days. Now it's just too expensive, I think.

@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.

What do Fedi people think about #Posteo email service? I'm pondering my choices in case of degoogling and finding a good email provider isn't easy.
Here's my criteria:
1) It's an email provider. Not everything-you-never-needed in one ugly unwieldy box and a stupid AI on the side.
2) I don't care about so called privacy and encryption, it's a marketing fad. These services are just huge targets for governmental blocking. So wherever you cool hackers are, I'm staying away. I want to be with common people. I don't want to be a collateral damage.
3) I don't care about Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, etc. Whatever I write on the Internet could be written on the wall, for everything else there is PGP.
4) I care about respectability and stability. So this service has to be in business for at least 10 years and not run by a group of enthusiasts.
5) POP3/IMAP support without restrictions.
So this leaves me with two options: #Fastmail and #Posteo
Fastmail is great, I used it in the past when it was twenty something dollars a year, but now it's too expensive. $5 a month and most features are overkill. 60Gb of space is ten times more than all my working documents combined.
Posteo is cheap and affordable, 2Gb is more than enough. But I don't really know if it's good and reliable.
Other sane alternatives are welcome, of course.
#Email