I had a free google workspace for over a decade with a domain I own before it became a paid service, I’m looking at putting it all in my hands ideally using services that cost less than the $15/Month in paying for a handful of accounts.
I’m looking at running a Nextcloud to replace most of the Google services but I still haven’t found an email server replacement. Any ideas/suggestions/links to guides?
Edit: I’m not necessarily looking to host my own email, as I understand it to be a pain, but looking to migrate my current one to somewhere else.
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I switched from google to Proton and it’s been solid.
Hosting is not that difficult as some comment describe it. But in the same time, check your domain provider services. Mine, for domain + mailboxes cost splaying like 3€/month
Protonmail is good. I did the same thing you’re doing and proton seems to be a reputable brand at the moment.
See this howto: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/
I have delivery to the inbox of all major providers using this. Email is not that hard…
I use namecheap stupid cheap web hosting that comes with 10gb pop/imap email $4.33/mo I just let the cache fill up on my client while the mailbox empties and I do backups of the PST. I use the webclient for operation.
Not as featured but beats the bells and whistles for personal use.
Just use mailbox.org or posteo. They’re cheap and reliable
If you want unlimited accounts I’d recommend mail cheap
Idk I really like cock.li
I use cloudflare, the free tier, that includes email associated to your domain. In essence it will route email messages to any domain/address you own to a destination. Say outlook.com or gmail.com free email tier.
For email I think the best choice is still M365. It’s not free and not self hosted but IMHO it’s by far the best e-mail/collaboration suit that exists
for email, there’s gmx
Well the obligatory mention that selfhosting email is more headache than what its worth. You don’t wan’t to be told from expecting recipient that email from you never arrive since their provider blackholed your mail into oblivion.
Try mxroute for email. Currently theres ongoing black friday promo for $15 triennially. https://mxroute.blackfriday/
I moved to Zillium (Zoho Family plan) but not 100% happy with them. Heaps of threads on migration and options on the Google Workspace Reddit starting around the time they tried to remove the free legacy plans.
Don’t be your own email admin. Get a $1 CPanel host from anywhere and you’re good to go.
I wouldn’t host my own email server.
If I was to migrate my legacy Workspace, I’d move it to M365…
Yeah, it’s not self hosted, but sometimes, not being at fault for something that’s broken… Would be nice!