Ask HN: 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?
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).
Email is an inherently unsafe communication medium. If you want it safe you need to encrypt the message with the recipient’s public key and your own private key, but that is hardly ideal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
I said, "Email is an inherently unsafe communication medium. If you want it safe you need to encrypt the message with the recipient’s public key and your own private key, but that is hardly ideal." There is nothing about email the way it is now that is safe. It doesn't matter where it is hosted. If my email is hosted in an underground bunker in Switzerland, but I'm sending emails to a gmail user.... If I want secure communication I need to use Signal.
The technical aspect has been improving with more emails encrypted in transit using TLS, so email being inherently unsafe is only half true. We also need to care about the legal aspect too, and it makes sense to avoid email providers operating in countries without legal protection for users.
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.
I don't like the idea of checking multiple mail accounts, and setting up a couple filters goes a long way in organization. and It costs me nothing. And in case my gmail gets suspended, I can easily switch to another service.
As for privacy, I don't really think mail should be used for any communication that can come bite you in future.
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!
They have their code open sourced, and you can self host it if you want. I personally did not bother since I do not use their service for outbound mail (which would definately get marked as spam) and I trust them for now. It also has a neat temporary mail plugin (which I put under a subdomain) that might come in handy sometimes.
My only guess is that The ip addresses used by namecheap smtp servers have very poor reputation with , especially, outlook and Microsoft email servers.
You might think it’s not important… until you send to someone with an @outlook.com address or a company using ahosted Exchange solution from Microsoft.
No one. I host my email myself.