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Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use? (partizle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I'm going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I'm plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification emails from my server doesn't seem worth it to me. I've not looked into what all else comes with Proton's Business features, but i'm not really running a business or trying to start one up.

What do you use? do you like it? How's the cost/features?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I run a VPS through InterServer, pay about 20 USD per month but that's for 4 cores and 8 GB RAM which of course is overkill for mail, but I use it for a lot more. Like Lemmy.

You can absolutely do it with 1 Core 2 GB and that's more like 5 USD per month.

I use iRedMail which is open source and they have good documentation. But fair warning that it's quite a bit of work self hosting mail and getting your mail to not end up in peoples spam folder. Still very much worth it though.