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  • I can recommend Fastmail. Reasonably priced, modern tech & features, good service. Never had any issues.
    by wh33zle
  • Too bad the author didn't check Fastmail. It checks all the boxes and on top of that its, imho, the best finished product for mail / cal / contacts and by far.

    It may even be my favorite tech product at all. Should I be able to pay for more storage space for the drive (options are very limited), it would approach the perfection.

    by pjerem
  • The shared hosting package that I bought with my domain 20 years ago from a local hosting company comes with all of these, it cost I think €12/year originally. They got acquired some time ago by a large hosting company who charges more than €120/year for the same package. Then I switched to another local mail provider who charge €40/year (but with more storage). Aren't there many such providers?
    by ruuda
  • Why does it say

    > This post placed #4 on HackerNews

    Did you want to talk about your custom email domain, or the meta game of the HN algorithm? It can't really be both

    by hypfer
  • Feels weird to ignore the largest players, e.g. Fastmail or Protonmail
    by EwanToo
  • I use Migadu(migadu.com), but Apple's iCloud email hosting is basically tailor fit to your expectations, so I don't have any idea why you don't use it.

    But you can host your own email too. It's not the easiest option, but it can be done, and there has been some newer email server software written that tries to make it easier.

    by zie
  • Interesting that self-hosting isn't on his list. It hits every one of his checkboxes and only costs you an old Linux server collecting dust at home (or at most, a $5/mo VPS), which you can also use to host other things.

    It's never been easier to self-host, but it feels like, in general, when faced with "I want to do X with a computer," people are more and more reaching for paid, hosted services rather than DIY anymore.

    by ryandrake
  • Hi Jacob, Ado here, from FounderMail. I'm really glad you ended up on-boarding with us, and I wanted to reach out to thank you for the review and feedback.

    The manual approve to outbound sending helped a lot to keep spammers out of the platform.

    We ensure that domain exists and you're the owner, the website is legit, etc, making impossible for a bot to operate throughout our channel.

    And is working, almost 4 weeks in, no complaints, less than 0.1 bounce rate.

    You know, having an high reputation is vital to ensure the emails we send on behalf of our customers are reaching the inbox not the spam folder.

    Said that, you continue to be right: it's annoying. We're working to reduce the pain autoapproving it for cases like your.

    Thank you again (I hope you'll never find a reason to leave us! :)

    by adospace

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