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What's a good alternative to Gmail? (meganice.online)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to host my own mail server. Getting it up and running with iredmail wasn't too difficult, but maintaining all of the different components and setting up spam filters and autodiscover and stuff like that is an absolute nightmare.

I just use proton mail. I can point my dns to them, and they do everything else for me.

Only downside is that they don't expose pop3 or imap, so you have to either use their app, or set up their bridge and host that locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you just buy the office 365 service through a domain provider its as simple as a few clicks. Namecheap charges me $6 a year for my domain and $5 a month for an Office 365 mailbox with 5 users. It was a few clicks and it was set up, and I can log into the Office interface to manage the accounts. If you are running your own SMTP server from your home, yes, it can be extra steps. But that's just silly if you can afford a cloud hosted email.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

But then it's all Microsoft-y...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

5 users is not enough for my family, and they don't offer additional users.