Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don’t mind if it’s a paid service if it’s robust.

  • Ghoelian
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    41 year ago

    I used to host my own mail server. Getting it up and running with iredmail wasn’t too difficult, but maintaining all of the different components and setting up spam filters and autodiscover and stuff like that is an absolute nightmare.

    I just use proton mail. I can point my dns to them, and they do everything else for me.

    Only downside is that they don’t expose pop3 or imap, so you have to either use their app, or set up their bridge and host that locally.

    • @thorbot
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      11 year ago

      If you just buy the office 365 service through a domain provider its as simple as a few clicks. Namecheap charges me $6 a year for my domain and $5 a month for an Office 365 mailbox with 5 users. It was a few clicks and it was set up, and I can log into the Office interface to manage the accounts. If you are running your own SMTP server from your home, yes, it can be extra steps. But that’s just silly if you can afford a cloud hosted email.