Ask HN: What's the best mail hoster for a startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20669459

by footstock • 7 years ago

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Currently we use gsuit, but there is too much in there we don't use and > 5€ per user is too much. We need a stable hoster, privacy and no gimmicks.. any suggestions ?

noja• 7 years ago

How about Mailbox? https://mailbox.org/en/ (they support calendar sync)

or Zoho https://www.zoho.com/

z3t4• 7 years ago

If your own time is worth very little I suggest self hosting. It takes a few hours to setup.

brianmurphy• 7 years ago

Plus a few hours every week to chase down reports of emails not being delivered, spam, etc.

As someone with many servers and a previous career managing an email service for a university, I would never run my email through anything except G Suite or Office 365. The benefits of those services being "too big to block" is immeasurable.

mtmail• 7 years ago

It's hard to run a service below 3 Euro/month with good (human) support, those who do often charge annual. We use https://runbox.com/price-plans/ and are very happy. There was a discount for pre-paying two years and in our monthly cost spreadsheet with 30+ SaaS it's the service costing us the least.

There's several previous 'alternatives to gmail' discussions, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448108

bozho• 7 years ago

Even 10 euro a month per user is nothing - their salary + insurance + taxes is probably 3-4 thousand euro at least, these 10 euro are a statistical error.

We use Office365, because we need Office anyway. We initially used a hosting provider email server, but it's not trivial to get the email DNS configuration right, and you risk going in spam. Even after we got our configuration right, we still had occasional "spam" issues.

buboard• 7 years ago

Set the spf fields in DNS and you should be fine. It's not really that hard unless you do send out spammy mails.

cerberusss• 7 years ago

What's nice about GSuite is contacts and calendar syncing on Android and iPhone.

Do realize that Android only supports GSuite. In other words, by default it doesn't support CalDAV and CardDAV. There are apps for that, but I found those to be a hassle.

pcmaffey• 7 years ago

Pretty happy so far with Migadu.

trpapp• 7 years ago

Agreed! Migadu is great considering they essentially give you a single mailbox for free and the upgrades aren't per user. The different tiers just have sending limits with the top tier being basically unlimited (at their discretion - they're just worried about spam, rightfully so).

https://www.migadu.com/en/pricing.html

sharmi• 7 years ago

One more happy user of migadu. Painless. Unlimited mailboxes. Only restriction is on the number of emails you send

dbm44• 7 years ago

Yes Migadu works well. Been using it more than 9 months now with only one minor problem, which was quickly sorted

factorialboy• 7 years ago

I recently setup tutanota for my startups email needs. It's terrific. No frills, just works, secure and encrypted email. Can't be happier.

Edit: obligatory link tutanota.com

caseyscottmckay• 7 years ago

Plus one for tutanota. I've been using tutanota for years and love it. And the recent calendar feature is great.

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