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For those who don't want to host their own email, but want need a non-Google (and non-Hotmail ahem) account for password recovery and problems like getting perma-banned from Google: what should we use? Happy to pay a small amount.

I heard Fastmail is good?

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I’ve been using Fastmail and it’s fantastic. Their customer support is top quality if you need help, but I basically never think about it. I use Fastmail and it just works with no effort, so I love it.

Zoho has a great free tier email hosting with custom domain and the cheapest paying tier I’ve found. Been using it for years without a problem. The first paying tier allows for IMAP/POP, while the free tier only allows webmail access.

Have you found a way to create a new zoho mail without "seeding" it with a third party email at the start?

My workflow for any new project is to create an outlook account and use it to open a zoho one, then never touch the outlook again

Fastmail is great (I use them), but there are a dozen other options for simple use cases.

Apple might be good for root ID management for non-experts, since you can generally walk into a store and ask a knowledgeable human for help in person.

I’m not sure how often they incorrectly permaban users or initiate uncancellable credit card transactions though. I haven’t heard of any cases where that happened (unlike google).

I'll also agree with fastmail. In addition to great support (which I only needed once in many years), their interface is also much much faster than "how about 5gb of badly written JS"-gmail (yes, a bit of hyperbole, but Gmail is slow compared to fastmail)

Personally i am really happy with mailbox.org German provider that tries to be a gsuite replacement. I cannot know challenges that come from non eu payments, but it is a prepaid model.

I've got protonmail connected to a personal domain (in case I ever want to switch providers and keep my address), works fairly well.

I used originally migrated to paid protonmail personal, for a while. Then i upgraded to enterprise to try out/demo out my usecase. Big mistake. I couldnt undo it. Finally waa able to.migrate to fastmail.

Proton drawbacks: - NO autofwd emails - expensive - customer support is below avg

Fastmaul drawbacks: - NO multidimensional hierarchy (NO folders+ labels allowed)

Been using Fastmail for almost 20 years I think. One of the best companies on the Internet. I never have to stress about my account with them and their support has always been great to me.

I've been using purelymail.com since July 2021 with no problems. My monthly cost is around $0.40.

Happy Fastmail customer here.

Fastmail is solid.

all my friends off google swear by proton

I managed to log into the mail account I had when I set up gmail.

Their AI arbitrarily decided that still wasn't good enough and that was the end of the gmail account I had since I was 13 (yes, I got one of the early invites.) I'm absolutely never doing anything important on a Google service ever again. It doesn't matter if you set stuff like that up.

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