[lug] Email Services

[Bucky Carr]

A Montana friend uses runbox for his email provider. I think it clicks 
all your requirements. Based in Norway.

<https://runbox.com/>


On 10/22/2020 11:07 AM, Mike Witt wrote:
> I'm looking for recommendations for email services.
>
> Here's the situation. I have a handful of Wordpress sites, scattered 
> over various hosting companies (mostly Bluehost and Siteground). All 
> of these sites need to send outgoing email, and some of them need to 
> receive mail.
>
> Right now each site sends (and some receive) mail through the 
> servers of the respective hosting company. This situation is 
> undesirable for a number of reasons, but the main catalyst here is 
> that I'm hoping to move a couple of these sites to AWS Lightsail and 
> (especially receiving) mail there if very different from the other 
> providers.
>
> So I'd like to consolidate all my mail services with one provider.
>
> I need:
> (1) A regular outgoing mail server.
> (2) POP and IMAP for incoming mail.
>
> Like to have:
> (1) Forwarding, for people who don't want to set up POP.
> (2) A webmail interface (for quick access when on the road or 
> whatever).
>
> Now one thing I'm not to clear on is whether I have to be concerned 
> about the "reputation" of the mail server provider. All of the 
> records that I have to put in place (various TXT records with things 
> like SPF and DKIM records) are on my domains. But obviously the 
> servers that I'm going through will also show up in the mail 
> headers. I have no idea if people like Google, Hotmail, etc filter 
> on these or not.
>
> In terms of payments, I'd be better off with someone who charges by 
> volume, rather than by domain, since I've got a number of domains 
> (and subdomains!) but the actual amount of email in total is quite 
> small (averaging less than 100 messages a day for all my sites 
> together).
>
> Appreciate any ideas!
>
> -Mike

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