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Reliable Low-Cost/Free Email Hosting Service?
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Been running a couple Cpanel VPS for a few years. 90% of the accounts are hosting their email elsewhere like Google/Gsuite is most common. This is great as email is the most mission critical to most businesses and it's a lot easier for me, or them, to migrate their web server around to different hosts without dealing with email migration.
Now the only domain left on the server is my own email domain. LOL. And I can see myself getting out of the IT Consulting/Hosting business soon but I'm a TOTAL cheapskate. But I want something reliable. I use Outlook desktop or Android app to get my email. I have only have a half dozen other family members on the domain and they use web interface or phone app to access email. So I've kind of narrowed it down to:
1) Zoho Email - seems like a good value $2/month (annual) includes nice interface and features and web productivity apps for those that want them
2) Gsuite - $5/month but we really wouldn't use the apps so kind of waste of money when you only need 6 email accounts
3) Exchange Online Plan 1 - Found a way to get it as low as $3.75. Could be upgraded to Office365 Business Essentials later if desired.
4) Tiliq - new kid on the block, charges by the GB and I'm currently only using less than 4GB per user account so it's dirt cheap but looks like no support as it failed to send SMS verify message, no chat, not even a knowledgebase yet. GitHub project turned into a service looks like.
Isn't there a domain registrar somewhere that give a few free hosted email accounts? GoDaddy used to do it but no longer. I'm on Ramnode for VPS.
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P.S. Zoho Free doesn't allow IMAP so can't go that route. And I'd prefer not to have my emails sitting in Russie at Yandex although I haven't heard anything bad about them.
Rackspace hosted email is $2 per mailbox. I've been using it for a while now, and know a few popular development groups who use it and haven't had any issues. They live 24/7 live chat support also.
Yandex? Mxroute?
MailCheap?
Gandi includes some free mailboxes with domain registration, but their registrations are more expensive than some other registrars.
You could try migadu.com if you want a free email/webmail with some volume limits and their advert in your outgoing signatures. Their paid plans get rid of those issues (PM me if you want a discount coupon for 25% off the first year).
Mxroute is great as an smtp/imap provider if you don't mind configuring it through cpanel. Their webmail is old-school roundcube/squirrelmail/horde which I consider pretty clunky compared with something like gmail or the rainloop thing that migadu uses. So you're better off with actual email clients on your devices, instead of webmail.
I also think Rackspace is great... but the only problem is that even if you only use 1 email box that costs $2/month you will always have to pay a minimum $10 / month.
If you are willing to go with a small company, both @mailcheap and @mxroute are good.
Maybe find a Rackspace reseller, they have a partner program for hosted email, I'm sure someone out there resells without the minimums.
just saw this thread, so I tried MXroute with their $5/yr promo. Works really great, even enabled its DKIM feature.
Can anyone explain go me if the classic packages without dkim and the other thing would cause issues? What would the actual difference me? I do not know a lot about email hosting.
According to @jarland, dkim serves no useful purpose as far as undesired email is concerned. The server-side filters are probably useful, depending on how you use your email account(s), but you can always set up client-side filtering.
enabling dkim makes your emails more reputable (not making gmail/yahoo matking your mails as spam), also it solves issues when companies using MSO services not receving your email.
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mailcow docker image?
https://hostiso.com/nextcloud-hosting/ might be a good way to go. You can sign up for the $9.99/year option and maybe use that. They use cpanel. Not sure if it fits all your needs, I apologize, as I'm at work and can't review it all right now.
I hope this helps!
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It depends on your needs and about how many accounts do you need (some providers applied progressive discounts).
I suggest
Posteo.de
ServerMx.com
Runbox.com
You should spend a couple of minutes for each of them and evaluate features, plans and, for the one who provides it, join a trial account that is always the best way to check the quality of the service.
Try also to ask for something (even it's not a real question) to them so you could have a first impression of the customer service.
I like fastmail.com though it is on the expensive side.
You can try biz.mail.ru, it offers mail for domains for free.