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submitted 11 months ago by nisnete@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Sorry, this has been brought up a number of times obviously, but I figured I'd still give it a shot. I'm not self-hosting email, because it sounds like a huge PITA. I was looking for a decent email provider, but coming up short for now, wonder what people here are using. My requirements:

  • support for a custom domain,
  • support for hooking up my applications via SMTP (just to send, like, update notifications, nothing spammy),
  • (optional, but would be good to have) nice apps for Android/iOS.

Things I've tried (all paid subscriptions):

  • Fastmail - felt excellent until I tried actually using it and found that 1) my SMTP messages are lost/delayed by a few hours. 2) SMTP-sent messages are not in the Sent folder, which makes things really hard to track. More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/181tnuf/experience_with_fastmail_as_a_new_user/
  • Proton Mail - doesn't have SMTP support, wat.
  • Purelymail - feels a bit hackish to me, and I don't want my wife to input weird IMAP settings on her phone.

Any good recommendations? Thanks a lot!

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[–] bmaeser@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

i have been using fastmail for about a year now, never had any issues with smtp delays or mails not showing up in 'sent'

i also use protonmail. for smtp (or any 3rd party client) you need to upgrade your account and install the bridge. this is because you need something to handle pgp.