• solrize@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been using fastmail.com for a long time and am satisfied, though it’s on the expensive side and I haven’t looked into every alternative.

    If you want cheap email hosting for your own domain, mxroute.com has been around for a while and cranemail.com is new, but both are small companies run by people who know what they are doing (online acquaintances of mine if that matters).

      • solrize@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yes, I forgot Migadu. I played with it a little and it was nice, though I think it costs more now.

      • quoll@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        That’s the most absurd thing an email service can do,

        that’s how i lost my first hotmail address 😢

      • solrize@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 days ago

        I wonder if any comparable services don’t re-use the address when it’s on the service’s domain, maybe after a grace period. I use fastmail mostly for my own domains though I do have some addresses on theirs. Certainly if you let a domain expire, the registrar will sell it to someone else. Seems similar.

        Someone once offered me a nice chunk of cash for one of my domains. I might have accepted it if they didn’t want the domain handed over immediately. It’s a domain I receive some email through, so would have wanted a shutdown period to prevent at least some of the email for ending up with the domain’s new owner.