Free mail service for custom domains - G Suite alternative

No. I would much rather have a paid plan, with limits. Nothing is free, and an ads model service isn't one I'd move email to.

I would register if there was a storage limit and you were prompted to manually delete attachments when you are nearing it. I’d rather do it myself and save what’s needed that risk losing important documents.

No. But if it were with a paid option and no ads or marketing/data sharing partnerships of any kind and if it has limited storage and lets the user manage it (or move to a higher pricing tier), then I might consider it.

I really dislike the per user or per mailbox pricing model followed by some platforms. It gets very expensive to use for a few people in the family.

Copying my other comment on attachments [1]:

> People get bank statements, investment transaction statements and other important information as attachments, and they may need to get those years later from emails (it may not be easy to get from the original source and they may have lost their local copies).

> Like it or not, e-mail is a document storage medium for most people.

Note the following services that provide what I’ve listed above, except that they don’t meet some other criteria I have:

- Mxroute

- Migadu

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30008723

Fastmail has auto-purge: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280301-Se...

> Auto-purge - Automatically delete messages after they have been in the folder for a certain amount of time, from 1 day to 1 year. Pinned messages are never deleted.

Yandex already offers this for free, but without disappearing attachments. You can sign up right now :)

> Free alternative to paid G Suite. > > Your custom domain.

I love it! I need more than one domain.

> Unlimited amount of users.

For the free tier specifically, maybe organizations otherwise giving you $0 should have a limit like 20 or 100. Or "unlimited users" could be a $10/month addon for the free plan.

> No storage limit

too unfair for you, I'd rather pay B2 style prices for each GB past 10GB or something.

> but attachments stored only for 1 month.

Surprise deletions are an instant No. Most inboxes just show you your % usage in the corner and allow me to handle deletions on my schedule.

put the question into the title and start with "ask HN:". otherwise this post will be ignored. i almost flagged it as bogus.

No, because when a product is free then you are the product.

I'd much rather pay for the services I use (e.g. Fastmail) knowing that there's company who's purpose is to build and support a product for me, not advertisers or some other interest.

free or not, i'd rather have a storage limit but no time limit. either way i'd have to forward all emails to my local machine, so the storage won't do me much good other than as a temporary buffer.

with a storage limit the worst that can happen is that mails get rejected, but the senders do get notified. and, if set up well, forwarding should work even if the storage is full, so even rejections would not happen.

with a time limit i am relying on the forwarding always working, and, in case of failure i'd be loosing mail possibly without noticing. because it's attachments from old mail that i am not looking at now that would get deleted. that's not something i'd want to ever happen.

whats the point of unlimited storage if stuff that needs it – gets deleted anyways?

mega-silos have 3 major points: reliability, convenience, and network effect.

get 2 of them, add privacy – and its a viable alternative.

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but no, not personally – i run my own vps with poste.io install – you asking the wrong crowd.

I just use redirection to a standard Gmail account. It works.

Possibly

You can't have your cake and eat it to. If you want free, build it yourself. Lots of guides out there.