New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Google is ending my G Suite legacy free edition. What are some good email hosting alternatives?
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
@jar cmon man, they need you
google gave me a reason to finally use my 2 or 3 year old mxroute account, thanks google \o/
Same here.
And it's doing pretty well so far.
Lol, same!
i did have a few minor issues cuz google allowed me to get away with some lazy behaviors that mxroute forced me to correct, net positive for all involved though!
My exit strategy is to get free email forwarding by renewing with Google Domains to forward to a new gmail account. It will then allow me to send email from that alias. It's cheaper anyways when I set the currency to TRY.
https://support.google.com/domains/answer/9437157
I also have setup Sendgrid in case this fails and my mails end up in junk on the other end.
It's not especially ideal, but I just set up exim and dovecot on my machine, and use POP3 on gmail to fetch my mail from that. I mostly only did it this way as I have years of other mail on gmail and I kind of like the interface now. Setting up DKIM is kind of a PITA, but I've not had any mail rejected yet as far as I know.
The only downside is that it only checks POP3 periodically, and they made the way to force sync kind of annoying since they disabled labs and stopped you being able to just have a button.
Did you notice that Cloudflare offers this for free as well? They also sell domains at cost.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/migrating-to-cloudflare-email-routing/
I anticipate a massive gsuite refugee deal is being made over at MXroute, if not, please do.
I went with Migadu since their $19/yr plan is good enough for what I was doing with GSuite.
They already said they don't need the extra business, can barely keep up with the current demand.
I've been using Purelymail since last year. Only $10/year, and no issues so far. I can recommend them.
https://purelymail.com
i've no doubt with the highly praised mxroute can do with email sending even tho i haven't use it,
but for now i just use my webhosting provider's feature for sending emails, it use mailbaby/mailchannels btw, no complaint for delivery until now, as a bonus it also has spamfilter for inbound..
otherwise, i'll use mxroute, wether directly or from their reseller..
Some might not like how they advertise, but MyW is also great when it comes to emails.
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/178316/we-need-your-help-shared-reseller-da-mailchannels-cl-litespeed-de-usa-sg-lifetimes/p1
They relay all emails via MailBaby (which should fall back to Mailchannels if there's any issue), and considering it being lifetime, I think it's a pretty good price as well.
The only downside I can think of is spam filtering (iirc @jar actively checks incoming emails and make custom filters when he sees any spam), and the email sending limit (iirc sth like 300/day/email acc while MXroute is 300/hr/email acc)
Yes, but CF doesn't offer send from alias.
Well you need to use a Gmail with it. It allows a catch-all to an address at Gmail. (or whatever mail service you like)
Anyone tried Lark Suite? I am curious if they support catch-all email address.
Please don't. Sendgrid is nothing but junk. Their IPs are in multiple blacklists, and a lot of mails were marked as spam on my testing. Contacted their support regarding the blacklists, and their reply was to get a dedicated IP.
If you don't send much, you can try Postmark's free account (100/m). SES was also reasonable both in terms of pricing and IP reputation ($0.1/1K).
forwardemail.net
they provide email forwarding to your email, you can forward to gmail. They also support sending mail from alias, all for free
I tried, it's a gmail copy, but I didn't find catch-all option.
Postmark and SES are for transactional email, so at least officially, they do not support this use case.
Postmark, while having excellent deliverability, is trigger heavy regarding account suspension. This along with the fact that they have recently been recently acquired by another company would make me think twice before considering them.
But they are both still better than Sendgrid, of course.
.
That is not something that the forwarding service needs to support, it is something which Gmail allows, but comes with bad deliverability and other shortcomings as the emails will not be properly authenticated.
I can't say for SES, but for Postmark, it's actually OK to use it as a personal email relay. I personally got in touch with their support team regarding this usage, and they told me it's allowed.
I am worried about the acquisition, however I'm pretty confident their deliverability would be good enough for the foreseeable future.
Oh, interesting info, then Postmark is a good option given their excellent deliverability, likely better than SES.
Doesn't GMail require SMTP server to use send-as feature?
Yes, but people does input the Gmail SMTP server there, which apparently allows to send using arbitrarily domains (with no DKIM and usually the user does not configure SPF either).
I'd say a magnitude better (although 10x the price). Every time I have problems with SES (emails being delayed), just changing the relay to Postmarks fixes everything
Maybe racknerds shared hosting is of interest? Haven’t used it for mail up to now but why not…
Huh, didn't know that worked. TIL
Anyway, can't believe nobody mentioned Lunanode.
https://www.lunanode.com/features/email
Their deliverability is OKish I guess (never had any problems, but they only have one outgoing address), but their pricing is PAYG and pretty reasonable ($0.2/GB storage and $0.1/1K mail sent). They also sync the Maildir on two different locations (Canada and France), so you've got redundancy as well