My mailserver can’t point to gmail unless I get gmail premium I chose instead to run my own mailserver (it’s a pain, but it’s very scaleable and I use a catch all often). Gmail have created an anticompetative situation where I can chose to pay them money, or have problems communicating with their customers.

I prefer to pay someone... okay, anyone, who isn't Google. Fastmail, O365, Proton, whatever. Solves the problem and supports non-Google options.

I actually want to switch to O365/outlook for my family domain name but refuse on principle because even with O365 Premium they require you to transfer your domain to GoDaddy...

At the moment I'm with Fastmail, but the pricing isn't so competitive

>they require you to transfer your domain to GoDaddy

Not according to this page:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-your-own-doma...

But isn't that product ("Outlook Premium") closed off to new subscribers since 2017? (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/outlook-com-premi... ) I also had a similar experience to the parent poster, i.e. MS support required transferring the domain to godaddy before one could use it for Outlook if using a consumer-focused O365 plan.

Oh. Color me corrected. That requirement honestly sounds insane.

I've been on Mailbox.org for a while now while co-evaluating others. Apart from a few UI quirks and slow-ish support, the service has been rock solid and nice. It also supports push email for ios devices.

Looks like the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy links from the front page 404