Hello,
What host you want is dependent on you as a person. The cheaper emails
sometimes do not even provide DKIM, its hilarious how its 2023 and some
email companies DO NOT support something which is considered essential,
but hey its cheap!
Cheap emails tend to have blocklists against them, along with being on
a lot of blacklists, they also tend to be bad at support, although I
heard a lot of good things from zoho
(https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html).
However remember any provider you use is NOT private, not even
protonmail no matter how much they brag about being "privacy friendly",
its complete bs just so that they can sell their product.
So see my recommendations:
- You do not care about privacy at all, and want an email with the
highest uptime and reliability:
I would recommend going with Google/Microsoft business plans, they will
host your email and give you all their products with the hosting of the
email, of course this is expensive, but gmail and outlook have been
down as often as you have seen a flying pig, can't compete with
georeplication on their scales.
You will also have the best mail deliverability because Microsoft and
Google both whitelist each other, and they also are the big 2 which
reject most mail, being at one of them means you will almost never turn
up in someones spam box.
They also *debatably* have the best spam protection, but just be
advised they run an AI over all your emails, and use your emails to
train their spam AI's.
- You do not care about privacy at all, and want a cheap email which
has decent reliability:
Pick any of the cheaper options, hostinger.com I heard is good too,
zoho is decent, however they can be stingy on email storage, and how
many emails you send, if you like to store a lot of emails do be
careful of that because you can quickly go over your quota and have
emails bounced.
- You care about privacy, but don't want to self host?
Pick any provider, doesn't matter which, always use GPG encryption when
emailing others.
Anyone who says "pick protonmail" here, protonmail hasn't designed any
bespoke way of encrypting your emails, it is the same way everyone has
done it, just they made it into a corporation which they try to sell
it as some bespoke product.
You should ideally pick a provider hosted in the country in which you
trust their data protection laws, for example if you are European you
would not pick an American email provider as you will probably want
GDPR compliance. This is an example.
- You care about privacy above all, and will do anything to get said
privacy.
Self hosting is the only way, or find a friend which has a mail server
of their own and ask if they can host your email for you. But in
general any company will not be private and will log you for their
personal profit, your friend will probably not do this.
Got no friends? Or nobody intelligent enough to have their own mail
server? Thats ok!
You can get VM's from many cloud companies, again pick one in the same
region as you live, and comply to the data protection laws of your
picking. Then setup an email server on this, what software you use for
this is dependant on the OS you pick, if you pick OpenBSD you will
probably be using opensmtpd because why not? security!
Note: Cloud companies normally make you beg for port 25, you will
probably need to explain everything about yourself and why you wish to
host an email server on your VM.
If you want the ultimate privacy, and you by chance have an ISP which
gives you IP blocks like it is going out of fashion (like my ISP :P),
and you by chance have a UPS and a device you do not need lying about,
well you just got a basic server setup there, flash the OS of your
picking to the device you do not need, plug it into the UPS, allocate
it a static IP (WAN not LAN, or if it is LAN ensure that your router
has a static IP not dynamic, and ensure port 25 is freely usable, a lot
of ISPs block this). Then it is simply setting up the email server like
on a VM, and ensure your neighbours don't come knocking to compromise
your email data :P
Yes this is extreme, that is exactly why I do it :P
Hope this thesis on email hosting will be of use to you.
Take care,
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Polarian
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