Alternatives to MXroute

Michal212

Does anyone use Zoho - €2.5 for 10000 transactional emails valid for 6 months?

https://www.zoho.com/zeptomail/pricing.html?src=hm

WebProject

@mustafamw3 said:
I just started using Zoho's ZeptoMail (2 days ago). Emails to other providers work fine, but the first email to Hotmail/Outlook got a soft bounce (Message: 4.7.650 The mail server [136.143.188.237] has been temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation). The issue is it keeps retrying from the same IP that’s already rate-limited, instead of switching IPs.

This makes delivery unreliable for transactional emails, and honestly feels like bad retry logic. I expected it to retry from a different IP.

We encountered the same issue with ZeptoMail during our tests. We also had a few other problems but can’t recall them.

emperor

@ascicode said:
Any 1 inbox email that doesnt cost arms n legs?
posteo mailbox tuta infomaniak known, any more, possible crypto?
Should only receive registration confirmations for bigger tasks

Zoho is 10 euros/y 1 inbox 5gb with aliases and domains but i dont know if they accept crypto
Also inbox.eu 0.83 euros/m

Zhenmue

just moved to mxroute few days ago.

so far so good

moved out from namecrane. support slow as f. and they can leave you without your corporate mail for extended periods of time, without support agents available so...

Michal212

@Zhenmue said:
just moved to mxroute few days ago.

so far so good

moved out from namecrane. support slow as f. and they can leave you without your corporate mail for extended periods of time, without support agents available so...

@Francisco

ascicode

@emperor said:

@ascicode said:
Any 1 inbox email that doesnt cost arms n legs?
posteo mailbox tuta infomaniak known, any more, possible crypto?
Should only receive registration confirmations for bigger tasks

Zoho is 10 euros/y 1 inbox 5gb with aliases and domains but i dont know if they accept crypto
Also inbox.eu 0.83 euros/m

Its not really a must, but dont want to run pp on every site for small amounts and show off on bank account.

Smigit

@JosephF said:

@Smigit said:

@whynotlearn said:

@angstrom said:

@whynotlearn said:

@Nyr said:

@cmeerw said:
Self hosting. It's easier than you might think.

Maintenance is a headache. It is not "hard" in the sense of the technical competence required, just a headache.

Also anyone who is like the average MXroute customer needs to rely on a third party relay for good deliverability anyway. There is just no way in 2026 to have good, consistent deliverability with a low volume, independent mail server.

It depends, Scaleway is a bit expensive at 0.25 euros per thousand mails but I think that personally send less than 1000 mails in a whole year.

Also hetzner's mail servers feel reliable. I can be wrong, I usually am, but doesn't jar host things on hetzner themselves?

He used to, but that was a while ago. His recent deployments aren't on Hetzner

In any case, he has his own IPs that he uses for MXroute

Oh I didn't know that he had his own IP's. IIRC jar is currently using Onidel rather than Hetzner for the MXRoute servers.

Believe Onidel is one of three hosts he’s using. There was a comment he’d added them to diversify a bit.

Anyway as to the question, won’t meet the OP requirements I don’t imagine, but I’m using FastMail and very happy with it and no real intention to look elsewhere. Was on Google Workspace before that. Fastmail’s going to be a lot more than many of us would be paying for MXRoute or other providers mind you.

Doesn't Fastmail charge basically abide the the same pricing as Google Workspace?

Sorry just saw this now. Fastmail’s cheaper but you’re only getting email. Google was maybe 30% more, but you get bonus services for the dollar. As an Apple user though, a lot of the productivity apps etc are already catered for me in the Apple ecosystem so I don’t need that via Google.

For me it was less about the money but the retirement of the Exchange Active Sync feature which facilitated push email to iOS to the native mail app. Google retired that capability and the migration path for push mail was to use the Gmail app, which I don’t like. So took my mail to Fastmail.

I was overall very happy with gmails webmail, spam management etc and as a paid customer the privacy side was less of an issue, but the changes would have impacted my access on mobile which is how I’m reading maybe 2/3 of my email.

So yeah, that’s why I landed where I did, and also why I mail Fastmail over something like Proton which would also force me into a specific mobile app.

mp11

think will just use my uncle gmail acc