| > Could there be a serverless alternative where the service wakes up only to receive emails and will be charged only when emails are processed, filtered and served & rest of the time no charge - avoiding $3 to $5 charged by behemoths per inbox? I love ideas as much as the next guy and serverless email is kind of floating out there: https://medium.com/schibsted-engineering/building-a-serverle... https://github.com/arithmetric/aws-lambda-ses-forwarder https://github.com/0x4447/0x4447_product_s3_email It's possible to build it, but the problem is that you still have the same problem of deliverability. Obviously it works fine/great for receving emails though. > Idea is how cheap can it go for personal inbox with all the features denied by the superlative pricing plans It could get really cheap, but would people buy it? I always wonder if price is really the limiting factor for self hosted emails. Zoho is already QUITE cheap: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html Maybe this would work as a business, but it's a bit questionable to me. |