They have a great web interface that knows how to properly deal with (catch all) aliases including using the proper address to reply.
They do DNS hosting.
They do WebDAV/Files hosting including being able to create unique shareable links to files and/or dirtree style websites or picture galleries. I've found it all very useful.
I also like their rules filtering which let's you do custom sieve code that I have found pretty handy.
Been with them for 12 years now and they've been consistently great. Before that I was hosting my own mail service using Cyrus IMAP (and since FM is the biggest contributor to the Cyrus suite, that's how I had learned of them).
I’m also a happy Migadu customer, and I have never had to interact with their support. I use it for most of my domains, except for a few that are work-related.
Ooh, looks like they added that in late 2023. Man. In August 2023 I actually migrated all of my email to Proton and was ready to go when I realized they didn't support forwarding. Thanks for letting me know.
Inbox. They claim that the inbox is special in IMAP and it's hard to have a lot of messages there. 150K messages in the whole mailbox, I think. 25 years of email.
I second the support for Proton. Proton, however, is not EU-based (not that it matters in this context). It's Swiss. Switzerland, like Norway and the UK, is not part of the EU.
Yes, my mistake I was thinking Europe based (but having said that Swiss have stricter privacy laws than EUs GDPR and is a considered adequate for data transfer).
I use Zoho, here in India. It was the most economical solution I could find. Outgoing international payments are also a bit of a hassle here. However, it has been nearly a year now and they've delivered a pleasant experience. I really like their UI (may be subjective). Their base packages offer almost the same features as Google Workspace (mail, contacts, calendar, storage, office suite, etc), but at a much lower price. I don't know much about their customer support since it has mostly been a fire and forget affair with no downtime (as far as I'm aware of) or any other technical issues.
It's ultimately subject to people's individual tastes. I don't have a strong opinion about it, except that I'm grateful for the existence of these smaller players. The two large comonopolies are so dreadful that the email ecosystem would be a dead place even for self hosters, if it weren't for these smaller players. Anything is better than the big two and well worth it, even if you have to shell out a reasonable monthly fee.
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I prefer Fastmail.
They have a great web interface that knows how to properly deal with (catch all) aliases including using the proper address to reply.
They do DNS hosting.
They do WebDAV/Files hosting including being able to create unique shareable links to files and/or dirtree style websites or picture galleries. I've found it all very useful.
I also like their rules filtering which let's you do custom sieve code that I have found pretty handy.
Been with them for 12 years now and they've been consistently great. Before that I was hosting my own mail service using Cyrus IMAP (and since FM is the biggest contributor to the Cyrus suite, that's how I had learned of them).
But agreed the TAA bill is pretty bad as that means the company receiving the notice cannot disclose the fact that they've been requested to assist.
As far as email goes, I wouldn't use it for any private conversation. There's better tools for that.
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The downside is that downloading messages is fairly slow when you have 10-20k messages in your inbox. And the webmail is fairly primitive.
I never tried Fastmail.
For Webmail, I have been meaning to try https://roundcube.net
You can try it out at https://www.pikapods.com/apps#email to see if this works for you.
They do on their paid plans. https://proton.me/support/email-forwarding
or whole mailbox?
As for my preferred email provider, that's Fastmail.
And if you breakdown all features you can easily (in theory) draw a multidimensional plot where youll see a group of winners at least.
Downsides are you need to use proton client or web UI.
The proton suite now also features other useful (and secure) apps like Drive, Password manager, etc. I’m not using those though.
It's ultimately subject to people's individual tastes. I don't have a strong opinion about it, except that I'm grateful for the existence of these smaller players. The two large comonopolies are so dreadful that the email ecosystem would be a dead place even for self hosters, if it weren't for these smaller players. Anything is better than the big two and well worth it, even if you have to shell out a reasonable monthly fee.
But I know it's private, and I can generate email aliases to use for each service I sign up for.