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Email providers for new domains?

Always thought there was a gap for a service to provide email accounts for new domain extensions. Google mail is fine, I use it, but they charge $5/user. Let's say I have several domains and want a user or two on each one, this gets expensive quickly. Plus, doing things like getting SSL certs requires certain mail addresses which compound the problem (i.e. need [email protected]). I've used, Zoho before, but i HATE their UI/UX.

I just want a simple email provider where I can easily add/remove new email accounts for domain extensions I own. I also don't care about a web client, I never use those anyway, as long as I can send/receive via SMTP/IMAP/POP from my existing mail clients (AirMail etc...)

Has anyone found a suitable alternative?


Update: June 9th, 2020

Thanks for the awesome recommendations. A few of these look really promising and I had never heard of them before.

Seem to be the best fit for a reasonable price. I'll likely take a deep dive and blog my findings. Will also look into possibly self-hosting and what that experience looks like.

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on June 8, 2020
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    I use Fastmail since 2013, IMO is the best UI/UX I've ever used, super clean and super fast and full of features, can't recommend it enough. And yes, you can add your domains, I host tens of my own domains and create aliases and folders for each one, using only my Personal account which is $40/year, less than $5/m back then .. but now I think price now $5/m for the standard plan to be able to use your own domains .

    One important thing to be aware of that you can host as many domains as you want, but you can't access them separately. All your emails form those domains will be right in your inbox and you can organize them on separate folders and use aliases.

    Here is my referral link if you want to try them out
    https://ref.fm/u11696657

    or go direct to their homepage and sign up if you prefer that
    fastmail.com

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      Another +1 for Fastmail, they are seriously awesome. I've recently written about them in a short blog post I wrote on how I prefer to set up new domains names

      https://yuv.al/blog/setting-up-new-domains/

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      This comment was deleted 3 years ago.

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    You can give a try to https://improvmx.com/pricing/. It's FREE for up to 5 domains and receive only (through forwarding). If you wish to send from the new domains it will cost you $9/month. Which isn't too much by itself.

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      Also using improvmx free tier with no issue.

      I however did manage to get outbound email to be sent from my domain. So this also works fine with the free tier (I'm not finding a work around, it's just supported via gmail alias).

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        Yeah, I'm using the free tier + gmail alias for outbound as well

  3. 3

    Migadu: https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html

    Unlimited accounts & domains for a fixed monthly price. Highly recommended.

  4. 2

    I use Zoho, but use POP to send/receive all emails over my Gmail. Best of both worlds I guess.

  5. 2

    I think you are looking for this:

    https://kingmailer.co/you-dont-really-need-outlook-365-or-g-suite/

    So basically you add your domains, create your email addresses on the fly and have emails delivered to a fixed email inbox, making it easier for you to monitor multiple addresses, you can also choose for the option to send emails, you can configure this in Gmail, Live, Proton etc

  6. 1

    Based on recommendations here, I got Fastmail for my latest project https://watchmyssl.com, and I plan to use the same for future ones. You can have hundreds of managed addresses for your custom domains, so it seems like the $5/month cost is a no-brainer if you plan to have several projects.

  7. 1

    Hi everyone, I’ve launched https://mateai.io and I’d like to give you FREE access as a Beta-Tester for 7 days, after that it will cost 19$.

    You can do two things with MateAI:

    1. Write email campaigns 10X faster thanks to AI.
    2. Find inspiration for your email template and with one click you can import the template you love on your ESP (ex. Mailchimp etc).

    I am very curious about your feedback and hope you will find the tool useful!

  8. 1

    I'm currently looking to answer the same question. Really appreciate the update to add a summary of suggestions from comments, this helped a lot!

  9. 1

    I really wanted something like sidemail.com but it seems to be impossible to register domains there now - I think because it's hit the mailgun domain limit. I'm building out the same UX and targeting a similar (all your domains, not per user) pricing model on a different upstream provider (AWS SES) that I think will work better and be more friendly to this approach. I've got a wait list at https://maily.app if you're interested!

  10. 1

    Hey @johnny_am I think you overlooked my recommendation or maybe my blog item didn’t convince you

    I wrote a new blog post, hope you’ll take a look

    https://kingmailer.co/email-forwarding-without-hosting/

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    I have used pobox.com before. The basic plan is only $20 per year to setup email aliases. Emails get rerouted to wherever you want, so you don’t have to keep up with separate inboxes.

  12. 1

    Namecheap offers some super competitive prices. Check them out. Includes web mail, IMAP, aliases.

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      Namecheap is cheap. However, it doesn't support sending email as custom domain in gmail

  13. 1

    forwardemail.net with a fresh or shared gmail address always works great

  14. 1

    While it may not be fancy, I'm running my own mailserver, configure the MX records on a new domain to this mail server, and then add a new mail account.

    Downside (or I think upside) is that everything happens within the command prompt. It works for me.

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      I do this too but it takes quite a bit of configuration to get it to work. You will need the PTR, Dmarc and Dkim records. Things were simpler years back but resulted in junk mail.

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      Thanks @adamquail do you use https://sidemail.com/ or https://sidemail.io/ ?
      Do you know if they are the same company but different iterations of the product?
      I see reference to sidemail.io in the other threads here.

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        Well that's confusing! I use sidemail.com.

        It looks like sidemail.io is for sending email instead of receiving so I'd be surprised if they are the same company without them distinguishing the two halves better.

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    Some domain providers include free basic email hosting with your custom domain. This is definitely the case with Gandi, however I'm fairly certain there are others.

    If you need basic forwarding or IMAP/SMTP access, I found this less painful and cheaper than both Gmail and Zoho.

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