Your custom domain. Unlimited amount of users. No storage limit, but attachments stored only for 1 month. Option for saving attachments before deleting. Some safe ads in web client.
Would you register?
For company email: Fastmail. They're professional, I trust them, the price value ratio is good. Can't complain
I haven't tried out the family sharing yet though.
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
> 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.
https://admin.yandex.ru/select-organization?productId=free&f...
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.
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.
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.
Is it okay for you?
the only time it is ok is when it is backups that are superseded by new backups, or a trash storage where i put things manually, and even there i prefer to empty the trash manually too.
but this is just how i am used to working. i realize that i accept messages in irc disappearing if i don't log them too (but then i set up logs for quite a number of channels that matter to me), and i could accept this service for certain use cases like for mailing lists which are usually archived elsewhere anyways.
but i could not use it for emails from family, friends or customers who might send me things that i want to keep.
furthermore, if you consider encrypted email you can't even tell what is an attachment and what is the body. removing the attachment would also affect unencrypted, but signed emails.
I understand the importance of attachments. But it's the only way to make email hosting cheap or free, bc attachments occupy 99,9% of disk space.
But anyone who tries to auto-delete my attachments will never get my patronage.
Why do you want to cripple email to create a free service? This seems like a race to the bottom, with very little upside for you.
Limiting attachments - the only possible way for free ADs-based alternative.
Mail search - will be offered. But old emails w/o attachments.
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.
Like it or not, e-mail is a document storage medium for most people.
Maybe an hour of pausing and rewinding a YouTube video on the subject if you are a millennial.