Spoke to someone who switched and said that his sent emails were ending up in Spam initially for others - could even be related to other servers but that it eventually mitigated itself and he is quite happy with the service.
It may not have better uptime than Fastmail or Gmail but it's also very unlikely to ever come under focused attack.
There's a certain resiliency in having a lot of small entities doing the same thing, compared to a handful of gargantuan ones that can take down huge user populations in an instant.
I've been doing that for decades.
I had some deliverability issues back in the early aughts, but I haven't had issues for many years.
Over the past decade or so, SPF/DKIM/DMARC and not running an open relay (not that I ever did that) has kept deliverability very good for me.
That said, none of the IP addresses I've used are on consumer ISP ranges. That may have an impact too.
It's being delivered into the inbox that is an issue. You can eventually get there with a good IP and time but it's best to farm it out - plenty of services out there for it.
And anything else you'd mention as a con? I'm trying to remember why I didn't put them on my short list, maybe it was the 2FA thing, but I think there was something else.
And seems appropriate if FastMail is having DDoS issues.
I would much prefer multiple smaller companies that do one thing well, than a monolith that, even assuming they did everything well, has complete control over our digital lives.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-email-routing/
https://www.cloudflare.com/email-forwarding-waitlist-sign-up...
I had been using my ISP's email for imap connectivity from my home and phone.
They are getting out of the business of supplying the circuit I have with them and am now moving away from that ISP.
I chose to host my own email (I already owned my own domains and hosted my own MTA for those domains) on a local imap server. Heck, I even host my own authoritative DNS zones.
While there are single point of failure modes with that, nothing I do with my personal domains would kill me if my (multiple) ISP links are down for a few days.
Not the solution for everyone, but it works for me.
I like mailfence for several reasons. Quick, at personal support is one important factor.
However I do think it would suit any provider if they publicized an annotated downtown log, so that we didn't have to guess how often or why they had issues.
I have not really used them, although I have their cheapest account hanging around. Not able to make a recommendation, but maybe someone else can comment.
They offer a bunch of extra stuff like cloud, video conferencing, calendar etc. but I’ve never touched it.
In my opinion the interface is terrible and the settings are not so user friendly, in the settings menu is a kinda sub-settings menu which seems to be embedded from a subsystem…? But if you’ve got everything setup and provided you’re using your own email client, the service is top notch.
Never had a problem, maintenance and stuff like this was always communicated clearly and early. They split the parent company behind mailbox.org into its own one and even this one was very nice communicated.
I’d love to try providers like Purelymail because I think 30€ per year for my few mails is a bit overkill but the money is well spent on people knowing what they are doing and most important, the servers are all hosted in Germany.
YMMV but I’m happy with them and would definitely recommend them!
For basics they are fine. Their cheapest plan is not the old cheapest. They added some new plans and now on cheapest plan there's literally no support (not even email or ticket) and many features simply cut off - no personal domain either.
IMHO one must not consider a paid email provider if it doesn't support custom domain, no matter how cheap that plan is.
UX is pathetic and there's no sign of that being fixed.
If you just need to receive and send occasional email at your domain however, iCloud+ may be sufficient and you may already be paying for it.
it has consistently been fastmail in the past, and i have had a great time with them over the last three years, but it's always nice to know what else is out there.
for better or worse i've also come to use fastmail for dns management (tolerable) and even for http hosting (awful, but occasionally convenient).