First of all, apologies if it’s not the correct category; I could not find a more relevant one.
Right now I have my own mail-in-a-box server with about 8 email addresses that I use with my own domain. Things like [email protected], [email protected] etc.
I’m tired of managing my own server and I’d like to use an already existing email provider, however I don’t want to lose the multiple addresses that I have since they are used in multiple places and they help me organise everything.
Who would enable me to do so? I looked at Office 365, there is the exchange server but on a per-user basis, and I don’t want to pay 100USD a month for email addresses. What options are there?
With certain eMail providers they let you use your own domain to send mails to their service. They have a really easy manual, where you have to just set a few records in your domain. It takes about 5 min.
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When i was looking for that i also encountered mailbox.org
They both start at 1€ per month.
Which is imho more than enough for most people (1GB and up for mails).
This is probably true for mailbox.org also, at tutanota.com you can set a “catch all” for you domain. Then they send all mails send to [email protected] to your account. And via sorting rules you can then automaitcally sort them into a specific folder for hireme and foobar and so on.
Right now I have my own mail-in-a-box server with about 8 email addresses that I use with my own domain.
I do the same thing conceptually, but have a lot more addresses.
Mail In A Box, running a unique address for each account. That way, I can tell who’s responsible when my details get breeched or sold.
I went that route because I couldn’t find a single provider that was reliable and cost effective with as many aliases as I had.
Free webmail is aimed at end-users, and hosted mail tends to be aimed at business users. We’re kinda in the middle.
Tutanota’s Pro Tier is $60 annually and includes up to 20 aliases.
Kolab Now’s Group Manager pricing allows you to use your own domain and add users for about $1.15 per account per month.
StartMail’s Personal pricing includes up to 10 aliases, as well as unlimited disposable addresses (useful for combatting spam, but available for free from other services) for $59.95 annually.
All three are privacy-respecting providers, and Kolab Now’s software is open source so you can take it with you if you ever decide to leave them.
Unfortunately, a $4 a month VPS can host unlimited domains and unlimited aliases. It’s going to be really hard to keep that level of flexibility and be cheaper. But $100 a month for Office365 is certainly overkill.