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Several comments are in regards to the issues surrounding the service, but I have to say, the service itself fills the niche need for anyone out there who is looking for a quick custom email solution.

When Google App stopped providing their free custom email service (which is fair enough), I asked a question here to see if there were any alternatives and basically there wasn't (there were a few similar ones, but not as convenient as what Google offered) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5179478

Of course there are issues I think that pawnmail needs to consider, but it definitely feels like this might be that alternative.

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I don't understand the problem. Why is free so important? For $1/month you can get 5 email accounts with 2GB each at 1an1. If you go to $5/month, you can host your domain on Lunarpages and have unlimited email accounts. There are other services that offer similar possibilities at the same price points. With email accounts so cheap, why is free so important? Am I missing an obvious use case?

When you're setting up a website for someone else, it's much easier to deal with no billing than it is even with $1/year.

Email services provided on the side by hosting companies (or worse, registrars) don't measure up to Gmail or Fastmail. And Gmail is what people will be comparing it to.

There is Zoho mail[1] - 1 domain, 10 users, 5Gb per user.

You can also try Yandex mail for domains[2] (1000 users and unlimited storage), but you will have to use Google translate to add domain - unlike mail itself, this pages are in Russian only[3].

[1]http://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html

[2]https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/

[3]http://www.blogsynthesis.com/yandex-mail-setup-for-custom-do...

Zoho mail is the closest free service you can find. Of course it has its own limitations but works well. I miss a lot of Google App features but it works well.

There's Yandex Mail for domains[1]. The domain panel is in Russian only but webmail is available in other languages including English.

[1] https://pdd.yandex.ru/domains_add/

Certainly, Google Apps and Outlook dropping support for free custom domain email hosting triggered this project a few months ago.

+1, the custom domains for outlook/ms is a loss, I still haven't moved my personal domain off, and am not sure where I'm going to move it to... I just don't wan't to run my own mail server again... took forever to get a combination of filters that were even reasonable without excess false positives or negatives in the mix.

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