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📣 CapriciousCptl

Email hosting for low-usage multiple domains?


Does anyone else have a few domains for different projects that they send/recv e-mails from? I'm looking for the best way to do this in 2021.

  Fastmail ($50/year) unlimited domains aliased to 1 account looks like best in class based on comments in this thread-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22789401 .
  Migadu (now $90/year) was formerly the go-to based on its old prices. Then they auto-renewed my annual subscription without notification at about 2x the price. Looking to move away in case they do that again.  
  Mailbox.org (1€/month/e-mail) looks promising.  
  Zoho mail ($1/month/e-mail) also looks promising.
Another option is FOSS self-hosted, which actually looks more safe in 2021. The major problem is finding an IP that's not blacklisted.

  Mailcow: https://mailcow.github.io/mailcow-dockerized-docs/ . Completely dockerized. 6gb ram required (VPS in the ~$40/month range)  
  Mailinabox: 1gb ram required (VPS ~$10/month). Same problem with having to deal with blacklisting, much less ram required though. Can also use dockerized version.

  👤 kureikain Accepted Answer ✓
If receiving is more important than sending, as in, you have your own email with say gmail.com, you can use email forwarding services to forward email to your domain to your personal gmail. Many hosting providers have this functionality built-in such as namecheap/godaddy. To send out email from your own domain, you can configure "send email as" in your gmail, as in gmail will send out email via google smtp server, but setting the FROM header to your own domain. This means it's essentially free to send/receiving email from/to your domain.

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Full disclosure: I run https://hanami.run , an email forwarding service which allow you to add 3 domains, unlimited alias(mailbox) catch all. And If you enable Log Mail(Disable by default), you can read email right in our website.

👤 trinovantes
Cheapest one I found was Fastmail. $5/month gets 100 domains and 500 aliases

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html

👤 feistypharit
I've used migadu.com for years and been happy.