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I'm setting up my Nextcloud server and am at the point of needing to connect an email server. I'm not interested in selfhosting an email server (not yet anyway), and I don't particularly like Proton as my current email provider (which was what I migrated to when de-Googling my life).

What email providers do y'all like that aren't run by shady tech bros and are easy to integrate with your other selfhosted services?

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[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Fastmail. It’s been around forever and it just works. And they don’t do anything weird with SMTP/IMAP.

mailbox dot org is also pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of their 2FA implementation.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago

Fastmail is probably the best, but their pricing is egregious.

I was with them for a decade or so but with a large archive of emails and multiple users i couldn't justify the cost.

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When did you try mailbox.org last? they improved 2FA this year. It is now TOTP + possibility to make application passwords. Finally works great!

https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/security-and-privacy/how-to-use-two-factor-authentication-2fa/

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Ah very nice, good to hear they addressed that. It was the only real deciding factor last time I moved my mail around ~2 yrs ago

Plus, if you are a 1Password user, it integrates to give you randomly generated email addresses.

https://1password.com/fastmail/

https://www.fastmail.com/features/masked-email/