On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 16:42:06 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for recommendations for SMTP hosting:
>
> - Accept incoming email for one or more domains and hold it until
> accessed with IMAP or POP3.
> - Accept outbound emails as a smart-host that sends to any
> recipient. - Optionally run SpamAssassin, etc., with ham/spam
> feedback just from my account.
>
> - I don't mind paying.
> - It's a handful of domains, not dozens.
> - Web-site hosting, etc., is not required so I'd rather a hosting
> service that specialises in just email.
> - Web-mail access, calendar synchronisation, etc., is all fluff.
> - Not bothered about extreme privacy, e.g. servers in a Swiss castle
> admitting access to only a court order, as most parties I
> communicate with won't be that level and copies of the emails will
> exist elsewhere.
I've been using Zoho for personal email. Cost was a deciding factor.
They charge per user rather than per domain, and have affordable
rates.
I've been pleasantly surprised by how up-together and feature complete
it is. There hasn't really been anything that's severely violated my
expectations about how things should work. It doesn't get in my way
too much by trying to guess what I want.
It does have what you call 'fluff' features, but they're not shoved in
your face, except that you have to use the webmail application to
configure things. (No SSH. or anything like that.)
You can't use it as a general purpose smart host unless you configure
the addresses you want to send 'From' in advance. I'm not sure whether
this suits you.
My use is pretty light, so I wouldn't necessarily be affected by
downtime, but so far the service seems reliable.
There's spam filtering. Some but not all messages come through with an
X-Spam-Status header added, and an X-Spam-Checker-Version header
stating a version of SpamAssassin, though it's not entirely clear what
criteria determine the presence of those headers. Addresses I send
mail to seem to appear in the spam filter whitelist.
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