They intend to have a free tier, but without the most important feature, e-mail at your existing e-mail address. I've set up my kids with e-mail addresses from this domain, and have a couple accounts myself, for ten accounts in all. The cheapest paid option is going to be $6 (USD, presumably) / month / account, or $720/year for the 10 accounts, which is a non-starter, as I'm not using this for a business.
If possible, I'd like to keep the e-mail accounts working. I am able to administer my DNS settings, so changing the, uh, MX records shouldn't be too hard.
What options should I look at? I gather that running your own e-mail server is horrible unless you want to spend your life running the server. Are there inexpensive services that will host e-mail with custom domains?
I'm using a custom domain and pay $5/month for my account.
$500/mo < $720/mo… but not near enough cheaper for kids email IMO
Regardless, I’m a happy Fastmail user as well, just to add another anecdote.
And that is a very reasonable price for a core service like email and not selling you data
I have encountered a couple minor bugs with the calendar but nothing I would classify as a show-stopper.
First, once in a while when you load the calendar page an event doesn't show up. Refeshing fixes it. Never had issues with events not showing up on mobile, though.
Second, I sync external calendars and sometimes events show up as also being on the external calendar. Weird, but easy enough to ignore.
Edited to add: migadu's pro/con list: https://www.migadu.com/procon/#the-drawbacks-list
Everyone else I know of prices per user. If you just need aliases and not separate mailboxes, protonmail is good.
Question for everyone: Are there any other services with similar pricing where I don't have to pay more to spin up an extra address?
Paying less than £1 a month and can share with family members too. Plus the other stuff like Private Relay on iCloud+ which are cool extras.
My family and I created free Google accounts.
I bought a subscription to Fastmail
I have multiple domains sending mail to Fastmail
Fastmail has rules to forward to the free Gmail accounts.
The free Gmail accounts reply from the address they are sent.
All been working well. I like Gmail/Cal which is why I have stuck with them. This setup however gives me the freedom to move to a different mail client or calendar if I choose.
The only reason I wanted G Suite Legacy was for custom domains. I would have paid Google for this service. I think they dropped the ball there.
I do similar to the OP, using it.
You can route 1 incoming e-mail to 2 gmail boxes, which is very useful.
Running a mail server is not hard at all. Setting it up is the annoying part as it requires you to know a bit about how email works and how all the different services are tied together. If you are a technical person then you would probably be able to research how email works and set it up in a couple of days.
Email is not exactly something new with a lot of innovation, so once it's set up you'll likely be good for quite some time(until the OS is EOL).
chad@example.com,wife@example.com, kid@example.com, dog@example.com,etc...
So am I going to pay for each email or just $6 a month for that one domain?
We have very simple tech for that. We use the free email forwarding option from our domain provider. This allows us to receive emails sent to our custom domain. To send emails we use the free sendgrid SMTP servers configured for that same custom domain email account in our forwarded email account.
Maybe not the most elegant solution, but we can run upto 100 free custom domain email accounts using this.
Still hoping that Google launches a family plan that has custom domains. I think around $5/month for up to 5 users would be fabulous.
I also bought a lifetime account in mxroute. It’s also fine, but wonky, as they’ve repurposed other tools to admin it.
However, some of my users have a lot of old email, and the storage options on migadu suck. I don’t want to pay more per month because two accounts need more space.
Lately, I found https://purelymail.com and put a domain with them. They’re neat because it’s usage based billing for storage. The billing model is exactly as I want, however, I think it’s a one man show, so reliability and longevity could be an issue.
Ultimately, I may use cloudflare email routing and migrate people to free gmail accounts. Sadly, the multiple logins (gmail and custom domain) will be confusing.
I listed the main providers I could find here, in case you are interested: https://adrien.poupa.net/migrating-away-from-g-suite-legacy-...
it lets you forward the emails to any free or paid service. I have my domain pointing to a @gmail.com account while my mom has hers pointing to @outlook.com.
if you pay $9 (total) you get SMTP servers and more domains, etc. (though the free tier is plenty generous already.
look into it. it's a great service. let's you move your domains at the user level fairly easily.
You pay for a plan based on your usage and are then not limited by number of domains or number of accounts.
