https://mxroute.com/ is what I use for this very purpose and so far I'm very pleased with it.

This looks exactly like what i'm looking for.

I'm slightly bothered by the fact that their servers are located in the worlds surveillance hotspots no. 2 and 3. but i guess email always has at least 2 involved parties, so it's not exactly "top secret".

That's true. But unecrypted email really isn't secure anyway. I'd prefer this solution to using Google Mail and having my emails read for targeted advertising.

I'm also always actively looking, and they look interesting, but their recent blog posts don't fill me with too much confidence (although they have to be commended on being so open about it). Any personal experience there?

Yeah, I'd agree about the recent blog posts. But I've been a customer of theirs for about a year and have only good things to say about the quality of the product. I think I originally came across them from another hacker news comment too.

I used to run my own mail server for years but spam was becomming a problem as it always does when running your own system and I thought the pricing of most of the services was poor if you had lots of addresses but didn't send/receive many emails. Spam hasn't been an issue for me with mxroute so far and their infrastructure seems to be pretty solid.

Used them for a bit. Their webmail is pants and the search is so slow. Switching to Google Suite has made my life much eaiser.

Fastmail allows multiple domains under a single user account through aliases.

If you are the only actual user of those emails accounts, then it's a great option (I have 5+ domains under a single account with them)

If you haven’t seen it yet check out mailcow for a nice way to manage your own mail.

https://mailcow.email/

I've tried mailcow, and it is also being considered. I'm trying to dig up "dirt" on it to see just how secure it is.

I'm always very nervous when it comes to running docker in production. Also, it looks like it (by default) stores emails in a docker container, which in my book is just overcomplicating things. While i don't mind software being containerized, i much prefer having my data stored in the plain old filesystem.

I have chosen Fastmail. Cheap, works really well (but I am a new customer so more time needs to pass), you can register I think 100 custom domains on 1 account, aliases, catch all addresses, etc.. They host caldav and carddav stuff too. Their webui is really fast, much faster than gmail, and IMAP works great.

AND they can import your gmail account. They imported mine in a few hours, 4.5gb of mails.

Their pricing says $5 per user per month with custom domains. That's exactly what the parent comment said they didn't want. Am I missing some cheaper plan?