Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use?

I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification emails from my server doesn’t seem worth it to me. I’ve not looked into what all else comes with Proton’s Business features, but i’m not really running a business or trying to start one up.

What do you use? do you like it? How’s the cost/features?

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

If you buy any domain from OVH, you can enable a single 5gb email account and 10mb webspace for free on it. The latter is maybe useful for some fail-over, but the email is definitely very cool for sending out notifications and such.

InverseParallax,

Back when I had more time I set up mailinabox, before that I’d set up postfix and Cyrus.

Somewhere along the line the sasl and spam management became obnoxious, but I have to make a new solution soon and retire those cloud vms.

It works well for me, but managed usually makes more sense, consider Google apps for your purposes.

BrownianMotion,
@BrownianMotion@lemmy.world avatar

Can you selfhost? Does you ISP allow you to host a mail server? (and there is a difference between what they say, and what they actually do.)

I use iRedMail as a complete solution which is a mailserver, complete with server management and webclients sogo and icube.

The problem you may run into is if your ISP actively submits its customer email subnets to sites like Spamhaus. But if you dont get IP changes very often this might not be a problem. However you do also need to have a domain in your control and know how to do DKIM and SPF

NettoHikari,

I have a VM at OVH that’s a couple years old by now. I pay only a couple € for it each month. On that I run Mailcow and it works just fine.

hitagi,

My domain registrar (Netim) comes with free email so I use that. They’re kind of expensive though.

ninjan,

I run a VPS through InterServer, pay about 20 USD per month but that’s for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which of course is overkill for mail, but I use it for a lot more. Like Lemmy.

You can absolutely do it with 1 Core 2 GB and that’s more like 5 USD per month.

I use iRedMail which is open source and they have good documentation. But fair warning that it’s quite a bit of work self hosting mail and getting your mail to not end up in peoples spam folder. Still very much worth it though.

nukeworker10,

I use Mail in a Box running on a digital Ocean instance for like 12 USD a month.

Oxff,

Second mail in a box. Works well and has done for over 6 years.

node815,

$10/year gets you what you need from Purelymail. purelymail.com I have used them for the last year or so and the service is fast and near real time with messages hitting my inbox (I use Thunderbird to download my mail).

purpleball,

I’ve been using them for a few years now. Always good and reliable. My wife and I both have accounts on a custom domain from them.

darmok,
@darmok@darmok.xyz avatar

I also just recently switched to purelymail.com after hosting my own for several years via Mailcow and a cheap VPS. The cheap VPS was more expensive than the $10/year for Purelymail and I was only using it for mail anyway. Nothing to maintain now and so far very happy with how easy it was to move everything over.

Also, they don’t charge extra for additional domains so if you have multiple it’s still $10. Only been with them a few weeks so can’t say much yet for long term, but great so far!

tvcvt,

I go a couple different routes: I have a Mailcow instance on a VPS for my personal email. For my business I use Zoho, which has been wonderful. Their basic plan is $1 a month per user and it should have all the features you’re looking for.

wgs,
@wgs@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I’m hosting mine on two VPS running OpenBSD :

  • opensmtpd
  • opendkim
  • dovecot
  • spamd
  • spamassassin
  • roundcube (webmail)
  • mlmmj (for newsletters)

Setup is rock solid and hasn’t failed me in the last couple years, since I added the secondary server to temporarily queue mails in case the primary goes down. spamd can be a bit inconvenient sometimes (but that’s on purpose) and I have a script to disable it temporarily when I need a quick email.

I have SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup on my DNS too, as well as requires records like A and PTR for my hosts.

As for the cost, I pay 30$/year for the domain, and 10$/month for the 2 servers. Backup is on backblaze and ridiculously cheap for the amount of mails I backup.

MrPhibb,
@MrPhibb@reddthat.com avatar

I have mine running through Polaris Mail. The domain cost me around $5 for the year (renewal is $10 IIRC), and I’m running the Y25 plan for $25/yr which has been big enough for me. SMTP is included, and there is a web interface, but I haven’t really used that, T-bird and K9 take care of my needs.

ghostface,

I have modoboaRunning on a 8gb droplet for 20 a month. Hosting over 10 domains. No issues, smooth transition on upgrades.

DaGeek247,
@DaGeek247@kbin.social avatar

I ended up using an old hotmail account I had laying around after protonmail and gmail failed me for SMTP access to notify myself of server issues.

trifictional,

Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.

You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.

ChojinDSL,
@ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I self host using mailcow. Easy setup. Prevents most of the beginner pitfalls via exemplary documentation.

wreck,
@wreck@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Upvote for mailcow. It’s a classic postfix+dovecot email stack with lots of stuff figured out for you already. I host on a cheap vps that supports SRV records so rDNS passes, and then I still route my outgoing mail through Mailgun for better IP reputation. At my low (normal) mailing levels Mailgun is free.

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