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Free reliable email providers that allow @yourdomain
CoastHosting
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Hey just another quick question does anyone know a good free email provider that allows you to use your own domain. i had the old Gmail one but i'm looking for something similar. but it seems you have to pay these day :P
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Yandex
no you can't use your own domain
They do a quick Goggle search and you would of found this page https://domain.yandex.com
Zoho allows you to use your own domain. It is free for one custom domain.
Another vote for Yandex
Still vote for zoho. But for biz, you better go with Office 365 or GApps
Zoho. But seriously, just go with GApps.
Zoho works well.
Mailgun is pretty sweet, I've had zero issues with it for the past few years. You get 10k emails free per month. Recently switched everything over to mxroute, though.
Office 365 Education.....
Mailgun and the like aren't really suitable for sending personal email. There's no feedback loop to the original sender. For instance, if you send a message and it bounces at the recipient's mailserver, the bounce message isn't relayed back to you. It exists only at Mailgun. Might be acceptable for one user (who has access to the Mailgun account and checks there for bounces).
Mxroute is different.
Yandex is best. You get email for domain, 10GB drive storage and unlimited photos storage via mobile app. Using it for two years without any issues.
Yandex has to store all your mail, including what you deleted, unencrypted for 6 months, and share with the Russian authorities even without any court order. And given how widespread corruption is in Russia, you should assume the circle of people able to peek into anyone's mailbox is rather large and is determined not by any law but by "connections" and the amount of money they're willing to spend.
Rackspace email
Yup. Unless you want your free-email-provider analysing/sharing your email.
I only see a 14 day trial, did I miss something?
If you want privacy go with a self'hosted option.
Or a commercial service (and read their TOS). Paid services like GApps, Outlook 365, Rackspace, etc. don't do nefarious things with your email
So you're saying they offer free backups...possibly with an offsite copy...
the reason for asking im still on the old legacy gApps and want to change my primary email. and cannot do it.
GApps is the best maybe.
Migadu.com though outgoing mail for free accounts puts their 1-line blurb in signatures, and there are outgoing volume limits.
As far as a free email @yourdomain.com goes, Zoho is pretty decent, and as @_rm rightly pointed out, stay the fuck away from yandex.
However, if you can afford to pay a little, G-Suite is the absolute best when it comes to email reliability, and a decent feature set to go along with it.
You didn't hang around long enough for anyone to thank you later.
A useful reminder that privacy is a privilege that one shouldn't take for granted.
The implementation of that law may look a little different. From the Wikipedia page (under "Surveillance provisions"):
Isn't Zoho selling customer details now?
https://old.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/8ml0z8/zoho_sells_details_of_users_to_companies_need_an/
That's about the crazier provisions, i.e. that ISPs must store all of their customers' downloaded and uploaded traffic also for 6 months. On the other hand storing just E-Mail (at least text-based message bodies) at the mail provider is not a huge deal, and you should assume they have no problem doing that.
If it doesn't have to be free, then Fastmail is another good option. Costs $50/user/year if you want to use your own domain, or $90/user/year if you want tamperproof e-mail retention.
I do believe all free email providers do sell data, example: google (Gmail) was scanning emails in order to get accurate ads on page. Privacy and free is not compatible together as providers one or other way do sell data.