HACKER Q&A
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What email service provider are you using for your custom domain?


With Australia's new mass surveillance mandate, I'm in the market for a new email service provider. Who do you use to host your email?


  👤 saladuh Accepted Answer ✓
Migadu http://migadu.com/

Super nice people, when you email them for support they're fast and thorough. Their founders are/have been active on here, and they're currently investing in foss projects by hiring sourcehut.org (Simon Ser and Drew DeVault) to build a new web mail built on modern Go libraries https://git.sr.ht/~migadu/alps.

They've got a list of pros/cons here https://www.migadu.com/procon/

I'll shill them any day because I appreciate their simple goal of creating a good email service with no extra unicord dust, marketing, etc on top, plus their willingness to work on open technologies.

They've got what you'd expect for the price, unlimited domains, great admin dashboard, etc etc. CalDAV and CardDAV come out of beta very soon (end of September iirc).


👤 auslegung
Fastmail. I used mailfence for almost two years but was disappointed in their customer service. I tried out fastmail a couple of months ago and everything about it is better/easier.

👤 randomperson_24
Zoho Mail - Free (even for custom domains), no Ads and an amazing email UI

https://www.zoho.com/mail/


👤 mkranjec
Gmail / GSuite.

Because I use rest of their services as well. I understand privacy wise it's not most the optimal solution and I might consider using alternatives in the future.


👤 CallMeMarc
Mailbox.org - It’s cheap, does it’s job very well and is fully hosted in Germany.

https://mailbox.org/


👤 dcminter
I use ImprovMX to forward messages to my actual email account, so changing email services should then be trivial.

Not answering the question directly, but since it allows you to use an arbitrary service it might be relevant.

I'm on the free service and have had no issues. I was nervous about it when I started: https://paperstack.com/moving_parts/

I have no affiliation with ImprovMX. I should probably upgrade to the paid service though now I think about it!


👤 Tortoise
Fastmail is good.

👤 Const-me
Using the mail included in the web hosting, https://www.discountasp.net/

👤 jcstryker
Like Protonmail, but less sketch.

https://tutanota.com/


👤 jehanrizla
https://mailfence.com Great alternative to G-suite since it integrates also Calendar, Docs, Chat and collaborative workspaces

👤 dqv
Mailinabox on Digital Ocean. I’ve been doing it since 2016 with no problems for several domains. https://mailinabox.email

👤 skydhash
Namecheap Private Email

👤 pwg
> Who do you use to host your email?

No one. I host my email myself.


👤 aprdm
Fastmail.com, works pretty well! Moved away from Hey

👤 mips_avatar
I use my Microsoft 365 subscription for my email hosting. Largely because the subscription is 80% off for employees.

👤 bckygldstn
Gsuite. It's fine, plus google signin reduces the number of passwords I have to use.

👤 _s
Just started with iCloud Beta’s custom domains, pretty smooth so far.

👤 dreamyfigment
purelymail.com after I saw it posted here on HN.

👤 rishidevkota
Yandex which is free of charge for custom domain

👤 ranguna
Anonaddy and purelymail are amazing.

👤 freediver
Apple iCloud email

👤 beckingz
fastmail! The aliases are great.

👤 cpach
Gmail.