I don’t need all the stuff they offer.
I ONLY need email@mydomain.blah…
Anything out there thats free or self hosted just for this.
Porkbun is pretty decent but actually is 25 USD a year, and so same as a single Google workspace account.
Or self host email with a basic web email gui.
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Email is hard to self host, I setup mailcow on a server and delivery has been iffy. For non-production email, pretty good.
Most of the important email on my custom domains are through mxroute.com. Considering Black Friday is coming soon, you can expect a very good offer. I spend 30$ for 3 years to host unlimited mailboxes as long as it is completely under 100GB.
You need to get a domain elsewhere (tld-list.com can help with getting the cheapest price) and setting it up through mxroute is usually a 5-10 minute activity (including DNS setup).
If you don’t need a dedicated mailbox, just buy the domain from a provider like cloudflare or Google that supports email forwarding. Google forwards all emails to @mydomain to my Gmail account for free.
If you also need outgoing email, sign up for an SMTP relay. I use mailjet, and their free tier offers high enough limits for my personal use. Within Gmail, I added the SMTP settings from mailjet, and I can now send email from my custom email address by just selecting it in the compose page.
You don’t even need to register the domain through Cloudflare, you can just set up Cloudflare as the DNS master, and they’ll put in the right DNS records when you configure Email forwarding.
just like u/NoPassion00 said,
you get a domain, or multiple actually, with them. plus a bunch of other stuff. they are my new fav. email service. and they’re absolutely free.
definitely check them out you’ll be glad you did.
Custom domain starts at $3/mo for one domain name