I looked at pobox and their forwarding has a limit of number of addresses they forward to so it Isn't actually true wildcard domain forwarding.
That is you can't tell them "forward *@wonkulator.com to a mailbox" If you could do that then you could literally put a company with 500 users behind them. I don't see how you can have them "forward to your own mailserver" unless you define your Own mailserver as "mailserver that only handles X number of addresses" With ANY kind of these forwarding schemes the real issue is incoming mail terminates on the Mailservice's server. Thus, the only effective spamfiltering that is available can be done there. You also can't attack spammers by tarpitting their mules and so on. It's the spamfiltering these days that is the expensive part in my experience. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Kevin Williams Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 1:15 PM To: plug <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider I second the recommendation for Fastmail, as well as POBox. Features of both: - No ads and no scraping emails for "relevant" ads - You can use your own domain name or theirs (you don't have to have a custom domain) They also have these advantages over Protonmail - Works with any imap email client (Protonmail's paid plan requires a Bridge app for Thunderbird. etc) - Doesn't have known/deliberate issues sending/receiving email to mailing lists or other cases where the from address is legitimately changed https://fastmail.com - I use their $5/mo plan for me, and $3/mo plan for my wife while I start the long process to migrate away from gmail. https://pobox.com - Their $50/yr plan includes hosting your mail for you. The lower plans only Forward mail to your own mail server. I'm looking to add them alongside Fastmail with a second custom domain so that I don't have all my eggs on one basket. On Sat, May 6, 2023, at 7:14 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of MC_Sequoia > Sent: Saturday, May 6, 2023 11:08 AM > To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Looking for a paid POP/IMAP email provider > > > >Protonmail doesn't support POP / IMAP client connections but it's Ad-free, > >they do have free accounts, I use one, >but they're also an organization > >very much worthy of supporting with a paid subscription. > > According to their site they only don't support POP/IMAP for free accounts. > > Ted > > >
