I’m looking for a new email-only host. What email hosting services do you recommend?
I’ve been using Pair for years, but I don’t run a Wordpress site anymore, so they’re now a little bit too expensive for my needs. – btw, MXRoute’s off my list; I gave them a brief try and found their support intolerable.
I’ve been absolutely delighted with Fastmail: https://www.fastmail.com
Dave
I’ve been using Pair for years as well but recent price hikes leave me asking the same question.
Looks great! Thanks!
Yup. I tried to cancel our auto renewal as my credit card had expired, but they processed it anyway. It’s costing nearly double what we were paying in the past. We’re probably moving to Google Sites because it’s free and our needs are very limited.
I can also heartily endorse Fastmail. I mostly host my own mail, but when I moved overseas I had to put my mail server behind a VPN and that created problems with (only!) gmail. The folks at Fastmail provided fast and quite knowledgeable customer support that let me route my outbound mail through their servers and things have been hunky-dory ever since.
If your email needs are minimal, Ionos offers a 2GB storage level, includes domain, very basic service, for… hard to say, there is a discount offer and a multi year contract discount offer, and a notation that state and local taxes might be involved, but it appears it could be less than $3/month.
Service is listed under Business Email Hosting and there doesn’t appear to be a Personal Email product in the US, so I apologize in advance if there is some business documentation requirement.
I am using their basic product in Germany since around February for 1,50€/month which is about the same and sure enough it’s listed under Office Solutions like in US but on the page there is reference to private, or personal, email usage as well as business. I’m satisfied with quality of Support and Help pages and as far as I know there have been no issues sending or receiving email.
They also have not been nagging about add-ons.
I’ll add my vote for FastMail, which Iearned about here.
Let’s not forget Rackspace. Inexpensive, consistent uptime with support. Domain hosting, if you choose.
I use Titan mail which comes from Name.com. I’m very happy with it.
Just curious why people recommend companies like Fastmail and Rackspace that cannot write anything relevant or intelligible about their offerings … oh well (guess I am getting old). Do they use IMAP? What are their sending/receiving limits (size, messages)? Can you have any number of aliases and forwarders per account? Have they implemented DMARC properly so it even will work with external meeting invitations (something Google & MS have a hard time to understand themselves, out of many things). Does it work with all kind of mail clients and still have a good webmail? Can the IT department change vacation messages for employees without logging into their accounts? Can the server handle UTF-8 and html in standard fashion (probably). Can you easily create a signature with links that are not underlined? Etc. etc. – instead just meaningless nonsense is all I see at most mail providers where you have no way to figure out even the actual costs for what you really want… end of rant.
Where were you looking? Fastmail has extensive and detailed help pages, starting at Fastmail
Try Setup – Fastmail for information on using IMAP
Dave
We have used a pair of premium accounts with mail.com for years and years and have been satisfied with service and support.
Our regular email apps are macOS Mail and iOS/iPadOS Mail. In a pinch, we can use Outlook or mail.com web from any of several platforms, but neither of these is preferred.
I am sure you can find relevant info if you want – I meant the comparison sheet where you quickly see the features (only the storage size seemed relevant to me there).
But it is hard to recommend a mail service that doesn’t have any possibly unwanted limitations.
For home users I normally use one.com (Danish company) but they have recently limited the size of free mailboxes to 3GB. For company users I use Google workspace mostly because calendars sort of works there fairly cross-platform, but their implementation of IMAP isn’t exactly good. Proton Mail is popular for security, but I have odd problems with receiving all messages twice from one of their customers.
Maybe have a look at Posteo.de
Much better presentation than previous suggestions!
I use migadu.com. No-frills, reasonably priced, full control, unlimited (I believe) aliases and mailboxes, Swiss-based, servers located in France. They have webmail, but I use MailMate. All highly recommended.
What’s wrong with Gmail?
I’ve been using it for a long time. It’s a legacy Workspace account. I have a custom domain.
Are they spying on me? Probably.
Yes, but as Google said back in 2004, it’s OK because a robot does the spying, not a human.
;-)
You’re not saying the legacy Workspace account is free, are you? I had legacy Workspace accounts for about 11 years. Then, Google decided they wanted me to pay $54/month for the same accounts. I left and went to the email offered by my website host.