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Email hosting with EAS
Hello,
I'm currently with namecheap's business email pro offer for one of my personal accounts ([email protected]) but I want to change that, if I can save a few bucks or get off the Uceprotect L3 blocklist along the way. So I'm looking for providers that offer Email hosting with Exchange ActiveSync, or EAS compatible solutions like z-push.
I also host my own mailserver (mailcow) which includes EAS, but I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to migrate to my own system for such a technically critical email address, the server is with OVH so I'd still be on Uceprotect L3 anyway.
As I'm only sending like 20 emails a year I have also no good way to gain reputation either.
Any suggestions or insights are welcome of course.
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So, I'm strongly considering going with my own mailserver for inbound email, so I get exchange active sync and use mxroute as my outbound mail relay.
I've looked at Zoho Mail Lite, the UI is nice and it's cheap at around 1€/month but all the extra features for such a low price make me question what's the catch.
I am also still waiting on OVH's Zimbra offer, they said it would be out of beta by now, but alas, it's not, and it's really difficult to get any information on whether they intend to include the z-push module, which would be great, because as a beta tester I'd get it for 3.60€/year instead of 6€/year.
I'd second that, use something with high reputation for outbound if you're willing to host your own server. Mxroute, SES, smtp2go.
Also M365 business basic is cheap, and you get 1000 shared mailboxes free, you just pay for each login (each real user) , so if it's just you then you pay $6 a month for all those mailboxes.
I actually referred a friend to use Zoho and he is very happy with them. There is a topic where various emails providers are discussed, incl. Zoho, so maybe you should search and read it yourself.
Once option for self-hosting is Mailcow + mxroute, there is a topic here which explain how to set it up.
Microsoft Basic or Zoho if you want your emails to arrive + save headaches + probably no need for troubleshooting lifelong
The price you pay is a few bucks a month
You get happy customers and no data loss forever (as close as possible)
Selfhosting is nice, but not for businesses where lost data results in huge losses. I once accidentally wiped my family's invoice server. Poof. All invoices from the past few years gone. (Luckily there was an archive containing old invoices that had been processed, the unprocessed ones still went to nirvana)
After that I moved all business related stuff into the Cloud: Zoho + Microsoft + Amazon all reliable, can recommend.
This way, even if I get eaten by a zombie, my family can still continue to work as usual