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Those looking to jump ship and use a custom domain, I've been very happy with Migadu. I've set up a wildcard inbox system (really easy) such that every website gets its own address, cutting down on spam and unwanted automatic subscription noise.

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Seconding using Migadu here. They also provide an educational discount if you’re a current student

Never heard of them before! Pricing plan looks interesting.

Do they have a web client, or it's a bring your own client?

How "family friendly" is the actual usage experience (as opposed to nerd friendly; I'd need to convert my wife as well as myself:)

Thx muchly!

https://webmail.migadu.com

I'd say the web client doesn't get any simpler. I'm sure my parents could easily figure it out (they're not tech savvy).

My domain provider used to offer free email as well, but not anymore (now they are charging like $5/month for that). Since I'm using apple devices, I gave iCloud+ a try: so far so good, it's just $1/month for email (with your own custom domain if you have one). Also, I find Hide My Email very handy and the 50GB of cloud storage doesn't hurt either.

I just use iCloud for custom domain email.

Me too. After being on Gmail for the past decade, I finally made the switch to iCloud completely. It‘s been a smooth transition.

I feel like if one goes through the trouble of switching away from GMail, it would be worth considering a competitor that is not a FAANG. Just to support smaller companies instead of quasi-monopolies :-).

they look cool but (e.g.) 20/100 sent messages a day for the micro/mini plan seems super low?

I thought so too because 364 days of the year I will average 0 sent but that one other day I might have a conversation and I don't want my messages to be blocked when I reach 21.

Thankfully they allow some margins and after that they just delay messages to the next day: https://www.migadu.com/pricing/#what-after-reaching-limits

So micro seems like a pretty good deal that I'm now considering myself!

Do they do a good job of getting into the inbox and staying out of spam? That’s the main reason I stay on gmail, it’s so hard to find a provider with shared IPs that reliable land in the inbox.

I use a wildcard domain for this. Every site gets its own address. Each whatever@ gets a mailbox on the left side of the screen, which you can individual hide or turn off automatic fetching if you want. Keeps things clean and you don't have to worry about spam so much.

Being a current user of Migadu: I’m not sure what they’ve written there is actually correct. When I’ve gone over the outgoing message limit, I’ve received no warning, no 25% margin, and the messages were just dropped, not deferred. I just received an email telling me I had exceeded my account limits.

mxroute is even better!

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