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HN is a hard place for people who like Microsoft but I'll tell you that a single user Office 365 Business Essentials subscription is a great deal. Along with e-mail you get a terabyte of Sharepoint (OneDrive) storage, online versions of office apps, and Teams. $5/mo. There's an IMAP migration tool. Just turn on IMAP on your Gmail account if it's not already enabled and let the O365/Exchange wizard suck all the e-mail down.

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A sibling comment also pointed out Microsoft 365 plans [1] that run $70/year for 1 person and $100/year for up to 6 people.

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/outlook/outloo...

And Exchange online is a fully featured mail server. Fancy adding 50 aliases, go ahead. Fancy adding 50 domains, go ahead. Fancy adding your family, that too. Groups, distribution lists etc. all included.

Plus you can set up Azure AD and use the SSO tools!

That's a pretty great deal. And I've previously tried to replace the Office apps (with Google Docs, Apple's suite, and LibreOffice) but just can't, so that's really appealing too.

EDIT: This plan appears to only support "Office apps for the web", which are not good enough for serious use in my experience.

If it’s for personal use, then the Microsoft 365 personal plan is $70 per year and includes the full office suite and mail. Otherwise, $12 per month will get you mail and Office.

I’ve been considering this, but how good is the spam filtering included with this plan? Do people often end up bolting on 3rd-party spam filters in front of Business Essentials?

I haven't adjusted the spam filter. I have been using it in the default configuration since I signed up and it filters out most. YMMV.

I use it at work and the default spam filtering is fine

I've been eyeing this as well but it looks like neither DMARC or DKIM is supported on the family plan. Anyone know a way around that issue?

Yes, use an office 365 business essentials subscription instead. You now get a fully featured online mail server

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