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0 pointsnomilk1y ago0 comments

Thanks. Just had a quick look at both. Proton is 6.99 euro/user/month and fastmail is similar (9 aud/user/month). Vaguely similar pricing to Google workspace.

This can add up quickly if you’re the kinda person who flings together an experimental site and lets it run its course. For example say 3 emails per site (info@, no-reply@, and your-name@) and 10 various small sites per year.. starts to add up.

Would be awesome if there were an alternative that you pay, say $10, and get as many email addresses as you can be bothered to set up.

I have absolutely no clue how the underlying economics of email services work, so I presume what I’m hoping for isn’t feasible.

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nmjenkins1y ago

A user is not the same as an email address! You can have up to 100 domains and (with wildcard aliases) basically unlimited addresses with a single user at Fastmail - you just pay per inbox.

esskay1y ago

I know someone else already mentioned about user != email address. But in the situation you mentioned I tend to use cloudflare and have that do a catchall on the domain for side projects and forward it over to my main account. I have a generic name I launch all my sideprojects under to cover this.

paxpelus1y ago

I've been using zoho. It just gets out of the way, but I mostly use email clients and their web interface rarely, but it seems good enough. And their prices are much lower than competitors.

tdeck1y ago

For emails specifically you could use something like ImprovMX to set up the forwarding and continue using Gmail.

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