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I was told Fastmail is excellent, and I am not a big fan of gmail. Once locked out for good in gmail, your email and apps associated with it, are gone forever. Source? Personal experience.

"A private inbox $60 for 12 months". I assume it is USD, not AU$ (AFAIK, Fastmail is based in Australia.) Still pricey.

At https://www.infomaniak.com/ I can buy email service for an (in my case external) domain for 18 Euro a year and I get 5 inboxes. And it is based in Switzerland, so no EU or US jurisdiction.

I have a few websites and fastmail would just be prohibitive expensive for me.

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You can have as many domains as you want for free in your Fastmail account. There are no extra fees.

I've used them for 20 years now. Highly recommended.

Wait, really? I pay for two separate domains. What am I missing?

I'm happy to pay them because I love the service (and it's convenient for taxes), but I feel like I should know how to configure multiple domains under one account.

Under Settings => Domains you can add additional domains. If you use Fastmail as domain registrar you have to pay for each additional domain, of course.

Personally I prefer Migadu and tend to recommend them to tech savvy people. Their admin panel is excellent and straightforward to use, prices are based on usage limits (amount of emails sent/received) instead of number of mailboxes.

Migadu is just all around good, only downsides I can find are subjective. The fact that they're based in Switzerland and unless you're "good with computers" something like Fastmail will probably be better.

Seems Migadu is hosted on OVH though? Huge red flag.. no control over infrastructure (think of Hetzner shutting down customers with little to no warning)

My suggestion would be to try Purelymail. They don't offer much in the way of a web interface to email, but if you bring your own client, it's a very good provider.

I'm paying something like $10 per year for multiple domains with multiple email addresses (though with little traffic). I've been using them for about 5 years and I had absolutely no issues.

Purelymail is just one person show. May that one person live long and prosper, but I am not putting my faith or email in that business.

Why do you need to put faith in them? Switching email providers is just a DNS change away, and email messages can be stored locally - actually it's encouraged to do so.

You do have a point. But I still do not feel comfortable. Besides I can't envisage changing providers whenever I face trouble and it gets unresolved in a timely manner which is what I assume in the current setup. Pinboard is another example. Anyway, it kind of doesn't work for me.

Pricing it hard to understand: https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing

Usernames on shared domains:

1 to 6 letters: $0.20 per user per year 7 to 12 letters: $0.05 per user per year 13+ letters: $0.02 per user per year

WTF?

I have no idea why that's a thing. :D

Personally I use the simple pricing scheme and looking at billing page, I pay around ~$0.35-0.4 monthly for 5 domains, with 4 explicitly set email addresses and catch-all for all domains to a common mailbox. Also I must state again, there is quite little traffic on all.

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