What email provider should I use?
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As Zoho have (without warning) suspended IMAP and POP access to email accounts from their free tier, I need an alternative provider. They also (unlike gmail) don’t allow free forwarding. Any suggestions, indieweb?
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Poorchop
I have heard good things about Snott’s recommendation (Migadu) and mailbox.org. Migadu’s 20 out/day limit for the lowest tier seems a bit rough though.
Riseup provides a good service and they’re supported by donations so they don’t rely on selling user data. They’re kind of political though.
I’d love to self-host but it looks like a nightmare to set up. I don’t understand why e-mail of all things is one of the hardest things to self-host and maintain.
Leon
@poorchop,
Thanks for the recommendations. I hadn’t even heard of riseup; looks interesting.
Yes, I have occasionally considered hosting this site myself (and would be interested in a jointly owned, kind of co-op setup), but email – never!
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gdp
antonzuiker
Kev Quirk
@leonp exactly. I think I pay a quid each for my wife and I. When the kids grow up, ill add them too and it will still be cheaper than fastmail, google, O365 etc.
Kev Quirk
@leonp I thought they suspended that a long time ago?
I mean, Zoho is a great product and very cheap for what it is, they also have a solid privacy policy. So why not pay for the service instead of going to a free service, like Gmail or Hotmail, where you’re the product.
Jawsh Mizzle
snott
leonpaternoster
@kev Thanks Kev. Yes, that’s fair enough; the privacy policy was why I moved several years back… A bit of a shock when emails suddenly stopped arriving and sending without any notice (including one quite important message), though. I guess they’ve got rid of it in batches.
When I signed up you got IMAP access as part of the free plan, so I think it’d be “ethical” to at least provide free forwarding if that’s revoked — I’m a bit trapped in the service without it.
leonpaternoster
@kev then again, it’s just a quid a month for 10GB…
leonpaternoster
Kev Quirk
@leonp ah you might have had it grandfathered and they’ve taken it away. If so, that a bit shitty. In my experience, they’re announcements come via banners in their webmail client, so if you don’t use that, you may not have seen any potential announcements.
Still a failing on zoho’s part though - users shouldn’t have to hunt for this kind of info.
All that said, I still really rate zoho and will continue to recommend them to anyone who will listen. They’re just so damned cheap. 😊
leonp
@antonzuiker ta :-)
leonp
@gdp ta :-) yes, I shall take a look, know it’s popular here
leonp
@starrwulfe.xyz strange you should say that as I've been trying out the Vivaldi browser recently. Thanks!