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?

  • anticonnor@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    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