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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 14 2019, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
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I would like to ask my fellow soylentists... What do you do for an email solution?

For almost 20 years, I have had my own personal domains along with corresponding websites, email, and any other needed service. As I am older now, I no longer need any of the visibility of my own website; I do not need it for getting new jobs, or to host any application or service. However, I still need email. My current ISP has annoyed me with rising fees and a lack of any service (not surprisingly, it went downhill really fast once their business was merged with another.)

So, I am looking to drop everything except the actual domains and the email, (not to mention change providers.) What solutions does everyone else use? Are you happy with your provider?

The biggest feature I am looking for is some type of "catchall" email address. While I realize this means a lot more spam, I am already filtering the 99% of that out. For years, I have created many single use email addresses for various websites. (e.g. keyword@mydomain.xxx ) IMO, this creates better security, because anyone trying to access my accounts need to know the email address I used as well as the password, and I also find out which websites sell my email address to others or get breached. It seems that the majority of sites do not have this simple feature anymore.

Due to my multiple handles, most of the simple email sites will not work for me. Not to mention sites that charge per email handle are not very good either. While I can consolidate with a catch-all address, this is not a preferred method.

I prefer POP3 so that I can have multiple devices access my email and webmail is a plus but not required.

So does anyone know of a email site that will fit my needs? Or is my best chance to create my own email server on a linode VPS? (Though I would prefer a simple premade solution instead of maintaining my own server at this point.)


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ataradov on Wednesday August 14 2019, @02:20AM (5 children)

    by ataradov (4776) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @02:20AM (#879931) Homepage

    FastMail. I'm extremely happy with the service they provide.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:49AM (#880002)

    Seconded. Using it both for my business and personnal accounts for a lot of years. No trouble. POP3 and IMAP working as a charm. Lot of configuration options. Efficient SPAM filtering (worked for two years with an account that was made public by the anonymous assholes without too much inconvenience). And a very nice webmail interface.

  • (Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:59AM

    by WizardFusion (498) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:59AM (#880004) Journal

    DItto. I have about 3 or 4 domains all pointing at FM, which allows me to choose who to send from.
    Service is great, and everything is easy to set up.

  • (Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Wednesday August 14 2019, @12:03PM

    by DavePolaschek (6129) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @12:03PM (#880099) Homepage Journal

    Fourthed, or whatever. They also are one of the primary developers of JMAP [jmap.io] so that we might not be reliant on POP3/IMAP forever, which I think is a pretty good thing to be doing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:12PM (#880257)

    Paid account holder since 2002. Multiple domains. They keep changing the interface and hiding the advanced features, but it mostly works.

  • (Score: 1) by John-S on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:35PM

    by John-S (7313) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 14 2019, @03:35PM (#880271)

    I too am EXTREMELY satisfied with FastMail, they've been my primary for well over 10 years now (back when they were xsmail.com).

    I have also found their domain record support to be far and away superior to anything I could pay for on DynDns or my primary registraar, NamesDirect.com/Dotster.com