I registered a new domain and I am looking for an email provider for it. I am happy with k9w.org hosted at fastmail.com and am not looking to change for that domain at this time.
I heard good things about pobox.com, gandi.net, and protonmail. But I want something else. pobox.com is owned by fastmail. I like fastmail. But I want an entirely separate vendor for this second domain. I like gandi.net's email options. But they require hosting the domain name with them to use email services. I want to be able to use any registrar to shop the best rates. I don't know if Gandi supports hosting the DNS for a domain and keep its registration elsewhere (registrar versus DNS host). Protonmail requires use of their own email bridge in order to use third-party email clients, such as Thunderbird and Mutt. Their bridge does not run on OpenBSD. Also, I want a service that supports at least 100 email aliases so I can use a unique address for every service, such as monopr...@mydomainname.com. And yes, I know OpenBSD has OpenSMTPD and I could host my own email on any of the VPS'es I have, point the DNS records at a mail spooler service (pobox.com offers this type of forwarding), and thus outsource most of the spam mitigation that way. But I'm still not quite ready to devote the ongoing maintenance time to hosting my own email just yet. I also don't want to park my domain at any of the tech giants who, advertise, and mine and sell my personal data for profit. (Occasional up-selling of their own services is reasonable.) I'm looking for a paid email provider that has the following: - I can pay them with my money. They don't advertise to me at all about third-party services. They don't sell my info to third parties. - I can register my domain anywhere, even if they require I host the DNS with them. - I can access it over imap or imaps or another protocol supported by mutt on OpenBSD. - Offers at least 100 email aliases, ideally infinite like Gandi. - I don't have to run my own mail server. What suggestions do you all have? Feel free to reply on or off list.
