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by busterarm 2011 days ago
Migadu.

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...

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I can’t recommend Migadu. I used them for a year, and I spent many hours dealing with delivery issues and somewhat frequent unannounced outages/upgrades which go unreported. Spam filtering is generally broken and ignores whitelists. They tend to respond to about 50% of support emails, the last one being rather petty when I left the service.

I should have seen the yearly plan fee as a sunk cost and moved on sooner. Hope this helps someone else.

If you're going with a smaller email provider, you kind of have to know what you're getting.

Keep in mind that several large email providers blacklist competitors by default and _literally charge an extortion fee_ to get off the blacklist. Migadu's issue is that they refuse to pay it.

I really wish Migadu had a very basic standards compliant contacts and calendar system to make it easier to switch away from the big suppliers. I respect the absolute focus on email, but unfortunately there is no equivalent style of provider for these services. There are some providers but they're expensive.
They've offered CalDAV and CardAV since June, they just don't advertise it particularly well. Check the Thunderbird documentation.

Oh and it's in Beta.

It's just much easier for me to host that myself, as opposed to email, so I do.

It's been a while since I last looked, seems like it was added over the summer. Thanks for the correction - I'll be checking it out very soon.
I can recommend Migadu too. They are great value - especially if you have lots of low traffic domains and email addresses.