[IgorPartola]

Is there any actually money to be made in hosting email for people? I genuinely don’t know but my suspicion is that GMail, Yahoo, Outlook, et al are loss leaders for their owner companies. I suspect people at those companies would be quite happy if the protocol got unfucked enough that it small players could participate without negatively impacting the network.

[GekkePrutser]

O365 web costs me 5 bucks per month and I only use it for a few emails a week so I doubt it's a loss leader.

If I'd actually use all of it a lot, sure but I don't.

[IgorPartola]

Do you just get email with that? Or maybe is there an office suite also?

[GekkePrutser]

There's an office suite included yes but only web based which really sucks. Half the office features are not supported.

It also doesn't work properly on Firefox on FreeBSD.

Even though on other OSes it works ok, it's so limited I can't imagine anyone using the web version of office 365 for any serious activity.

[0x445442]

I gladly pay for Fastmail and I assume they’re not running a charity. Also, I think hey.com is charging $100 per year.

[IgorPartola]

I am not saying there aren’t paid options. But Fastmail isn’t who we are talking about being a bad actor here and is much smaller than GMail.

[0x445442]

You asked it there is any money to be made in email, I provided you with anecdotal evidence that there was.