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It’s awesome that you’re providing an affordable service for custom email domains, but it’s worth pointing out that Zoho has free email for custom domains. There’s plenty of good reasons people choose different email providers, but if cost is your main concern, then you’re competing with free.

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I once spent an evening trying to establish an account on Zoho. It never worked. Free is not free if it requires hours of your time and causes frustration.

According to Zoho's web site they don't have a free option. The cheapest one is one euro/month per user - not expensive, but not free.

There is a free plan on their pricing page [0], but this free tier is web access only.

[0] https://www.zoho.com/workplace/pricing.html

And because it's web access only, portability of email data is impossible (or crude and cumbersome).

Scroll a bit down and you'll see a "free plan" (above the FAQ).

It's not that easy to find, but it's there. As long as you don't care about using third-party clients (free plan has IMAP/SMTP disabled), it's a viable option. I've used it for a year or two before I've switched to FastMail and it worked fine.

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