All I wanted was a custom domain email

adospace

Hi Jacob, Ado here, from FounderMail. I'm really glad you ended up on-boarding with us, and I wanted to reach out to thank you for the review and feedback. The manual approve to outbound sending helped a lot to keep spammers out of the platform. We ensure that domain exists and you're the owner, the website is legit, etc, making impossible for a bot to operate throughout our channel. And is working, almost 4 weeks in, no complaints, less than 0.1 bounce rate. You know, having an high reputation is vital to ensure the emails we send on behalf of our customers are reaching the inbox not the spam folder. Said that, you continue to be right: it's annoying. We're working to reduce the pain autoapproving it for cases like your. Thank you again (I hope you'll never find a reason to leave us! :)

patriciobcs

Why not using iCloud custom domains? Is the simplest option if you want apple mail compatibility

newsforb

I can recommend Lark. Free tier does everything.

ruuda

The shared hosting package that I bought with my domain 20 years ago from a local hosting company comes with all of these, it cost I think €12/year originally. They got acquired some time ago by a large hosting company who charges more than €120/year for the same package. Then I switched to another local mail provider who charge €40/year (but with more storage). Aren't there many such providers?

throwaway093020

MXRoute's lifetime plans (which they usually offer around black Friday) are a great option if you can get one. I paid $99 for mine five years ago. The service has only improved since then.

abound

I use StartMail [1], which I believe ticks all of OP's boxes (I had similar boxes). [1] https://www.startmail.com/

Muromec

I added my custom domain to my provider email. Yes, those still exist in places

EwanToo

Feels weird to ignore the largest players, e.g. Fastmail or Protonmail

LatticeAnimal

Protonmail has worked great for me. Never had any issues and I like the inclusion of docs + sheets (even though their apps are ridiculously slow to load)

adastra22

“Integration with Apple Mail” shy not just use iCloud with a custom domain?

mcv

I've got my domain at namecheap, and they just forward all mail to two different pre-existing mailboxes. I configure my mailreader to use my address at my own domain when sending mail, and that works perfectly fine. Sure, headers may show them going through different mail servers, but nobody ever looks at that anymore.

s0rce

I use zoho mail, works well.

65

Unpopular opinion, but I've used Google Workspace for years and I really like having my email via gmail. SSO and spam filtering and Google Docs. I thought about switching to Amazon Workmail but the price I pay for Workspace is worth it.

ryandrake

Interesting that self-hosting isn't on his list. It hits every one of his checkboxes and only costs you an old Linux server collecting dust at home (or at most, a $5/mo VPS), which you can also use to host other things. It's never been easier to self-host, but it feels like, in general, when faced with "I want to do X with a computer," people are more and more reaching for paid, hosted services rather than DIY anymore.

bastawhiz

> There was one annoying limitation. I had to submit a special request before I could send emails to new addresses that had not previously messaged me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding but this sounds absolutely wild. What?

wh33zle

I can recommend Fastmail. Reasonably priced, modern tech & features, good service. Never had any issues.

zie

I use Migadu(migadu.com), but Apple's iCloud email hosting is basically tailor fit to your expectations, so I don't have any idea why you don't use it. But you can host your own email too. It's not the easiest option, but it can be done, and there has been some newer email server software written that tries to make it easier.

jibalt

I just dealt with this due to the impending termination of .name email. I use a combination of gmail as my mail agent, CloudFlare for the domain, and SMTP2Go for low volume outbound with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. I don't have any Apple usage or requirements. Oh, I just remembered that I send mail received by my CloudFlare domain to both gmail and zohomail, and use Thunderbird as the mail agent for the latter.

skeptrune

I like Fastmail a lot

internet2000

iCloud+ mail was definitely a better choice. I'll send my feedback through email.