I’m setting up my Nextcloud server and am at the point of needing to connect an email server. I’m not interested in selfhosting an email server (not yet anyway), and I don’t particularly like Proton as my current email provider (which was what I migrated to when de-Googling my life).
What email providers do y’all like that aren’t run by shady tech bros and are easy to integrate with your other selfhosted services?
I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.
Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.
I want to thank everyone who replied. I did some research on most of these and think PurelyMail is the winner for me. Feel free to correct me if I got some details wrong. I want to give a shoutout to @mbirth for mentioning Disroot, which looks like a really interesting experiment in federated services.
Also, I know this post is really bending the rules for c/selfhosted, but connecting your selfhosted services to an email provider is essential, and having a reliable and affordable email provider just makes this weird hobby of ours a little easier.
My Rating (1-5) Service Website Annual Cost Only Email? 5 PurelyMail https://purelymail.com/ $10, pay for added storage Yes 4 MXRoute https://mxroute.com/ $50/year small plan Yes 4 Disroot https://disroot.org/ Free, pay to add storage and domains Yes, separated from other Disroot services 3 Fastmail https://www.fastmail.com/ $60 individual plan Yes-ish 3 Mailo https://www.mailo.com/ ~$14 premium plan No 3 Proton https://mail.proton.me/ $48/year plus plan $120/year unlimited plan No 2 Mailbox.org https://mailbox.org/ ~$14 light plan ~$42 standard Light plan 2 Migadu https://migadu.com/ $90 mini plan Yes 1 GMX https://www.gmx.com/mail/ Free, ad supported No
