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Are there decent options for free hosted email equivalent to what is included with most shared hosting?
The motivation is to make any hosting migrations easier, and to separate hosting and email servers to avoid leaking IP, as per CloudFlare's warning/recommendation when setting the DNS and CDN. I expect there will be very little, if any, usage but would like to set it up for a few (2-3) domains.
Zoho (possible for non-business?) and Migadu seem interesting. Comments/suggestions?
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No.
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
Yandex?
Any experience? I am running out of free first year of privateemail.com (namecheap)
@quick Just suck it up and toss @jarland $10 and forget about it.
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
The free hosted e-mail providers that let you use your domain just suck, one way or another, eventually. Namecheap has some like super cheap email plan don't they? I thought they had a $10-20/year one but maybe I'm thinking about web hosting. Zoho free is "OK" but last time I used it, about 2 years ago, I had numerous problems with it not sending/receiving e-mails at random times.
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I personally tried their services, very basic. Better off with G suite.
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I recently switched my last domain (dawgy.pw) to GSuite. Google Mail is miles ahead of Zoho and it makes me wonder why I stuck with them for so long. Having said that, $5/mo for email is expensive (but really worth it if you need proper email haha).
Why not check my site (https://dawgy.pw) out? If you need to upload a few GIFs, give https://i.dawgy.pw a try <3
If it were for anything serious I would go with mxroute, but this is for small personal sites where I expect essentially no email activity, and I don't wish to pay anything.
My options right now are either: 1) try free email host(s) or 2) stick with email hosting at the webserver. Not sure which is worse.
It's this thread.
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
Livin la vida broka
I think that mxroute may still offer their classic plan for a one-time fee of $5 if your email needs are modest.
"[T]he number of UNIX installations has grown to 16, with more expected." (K. Thompson & D. M. Ritchie, UNIX Programmer's Manual, 3ed, 1973)
Yea, sniped the 5$ package
Check Soverin, they are not free but they have got their own reason too.
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Shubhankar From Hyperpage
What's the difference with classic?
I noticed that plan too but it's just for 1 domain (I'd want 2-5), no DKIM (not sure if that's important), and no server side filters (no idea what that means).
If you just want basic email that works, high quality inbox delivery for next to nothing (be nice with it please, my limits are not hard set and I ask that you pay more if you send hundreds/thousands of emails per day), and no bells and whistles then you want the classic plans.
Ideally the classic plans are for people who already know what it is. It's basically the first product we released, re-released for people who said they didn't want all of the features or the higher prices that came with them. It's basically stripped down VestaCP with MailChannels for outbound email.
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What are the non-basic bells and whistles? On the page for the classic plans I did notice the comment which makes the decision for me: "DKIM and server side filters not supported. If you don't know what this is, you should not order it"
For the foreseeable future, I doubt I will even average 1 email per day across domains. For now it's mostly just an exercise in learning and setting things up, which is why I've been looking for free options.
P.S. @jarland your wonderful cyber monday deal in your sig is out of stock...
Looks like Zoho have improved since then, I am also using them for some domains and it works fine.
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How strict is Zoho on making sure the free account is used for a "business" ?
They probably don't want to host [email protected]
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
Zoho was good but recently they dis-allowed IMAP on free accounts, which kind of limits it to only webmail. Yandex has not failed on me for more than 20 clients I have on it (skepticism apart)
Hope you can re-release Cyber Monday Offer again...
if location doesn't matter, the australia price is equals with cyber monday offers.
If you check our full cart, you can still find a few cheap offers there ;-)
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Maybe this could be of interest for you: https://pawnmail.com/
Model is "pay what you want" via donations - donate a multiple of the $0.06 per account / year they point out as cost and I would still consider this almost free.
I was going to suggest Migadu but you already know about it. I use it a little (free account) and it's fine for what I think you want it for.
I so envy their simplicity.
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They probably don't use CPanel.
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
I'd guess single server basic setup with roundcube and no bells and whistles. I envy it because customers are why I can't have it :P
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You can always setup your own shit which you don't share with others..
I won't be back until @bsdguy is released.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of pawnmail. But: "Sorry, we are full. Free registrations unavailable until further notice."
Incorrect. Happily using Zoho Free on my personal domain, IMAP sync to mobile and will never move(unless they kick me). Could be true for new accounts though. Mine is few months old.
Past user commenting. They don't. Its RoundCube and basic mail stack. Not sure on server count though. Didn't have issues with it either. Just moved because I wanted to try something new. Free registrations are closed though.
I can also recommend Mail.ru's free email hosting service. Signup and management is Russian(can help if anyone needs), webmail can be set to English. They give IMAP and POP3 access too.
VikingLayer now offers VPS resource pools. Ask me about them today. :)
Not free, but, if you're already using OpenSRS for domain registration, their hosted email is worth a look.
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Not for now I think. Still a few packages available for cheap.
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Yep, simplicity seems to have been number one priority. :)
Sorry for that, didn't see that message...too bad though.
The cheapest classic one is 30€ anually. Hope LeT offers will be released soon
@jarland can perhaps do something.
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Added a few to BF & CM stocks:
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Some domain registrars will offer free email hosting. For example gandi.net offers 2 mailboxes with 3GB storage included as part of registration. Comes with IMAP support.
I use mxguarddog.com to spam-filter mail, and act as the public-facing inbound MX mail receiver. It then forwards my mail to the smtp server running on my virtual server, which then routes mail to my inboxes (gmail, etc.). Spam are nicely summarized for my review. I think the price is $0.25/mo per email address (50 aliases and domain aliases included). It supports SPF-SRS too, so SPF checks don't break when mail relays.
Downside of mxguarddog, there's no API. Must manually add/remove/change email addresses through their website. My 50 email aliases took a couple hours to manually set up.