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Ask HN: Who Is the Best Paid Email Provider? Why?

8•thesuperbigfrog•4h ago
In your opinion, who is the best paid email provider?

Why are they the best?

Comments

mattl•4h ago
For standard email, fastmail.com is very very good. Plus they're working on JMAP, which may actually improve standard email for everyone.

If you're okay with a non-standard email account that you need to use their app for, hey.com has been a game changer for me. Being able to handle the flood of incoming messages that comes from having an email address for 35 years.

eisenman•2h ago
+1 for hey.com. Learning curve coming off years of both outlook & gmail, but been nice to be using a service that is actually working to earn my money by making email better.
mattl•2h ago
If you haven’t yet i recommend their family plan. 5 accounts for less than the price of 2.

This made sense for me as two of my family are already using it.

toomuchtodo•4h ago
FastMail. Reasonable cost, acts like a utility. My email just works.
NetworkPerson•4h ago
I’ve been a big fan of mailbox.org. Cheap, easy to use, just works. Been using it for years.
_wire_•3h ago
Seems like a perfect question for AI!

Oh, wait...

Is it:

Who is the best paid-email provider?

-or-

Who is the best-paid email provider?

-or-

Who is The Best Paid Email Provider (tm)?

ivape•3h ago
Still looking for an email provider with customer support I can call 24/7. I'm willing to pay for peace of mind.
thesuperbigfrog•3h ago
I would like to move my email to a good email provider with actual customer service.

Free email providers get paid by selling your data or stuffing your inbox with advertising.

Many free email providers also have terrible or non-existent customer service because that would raise their costs.

If you are happy with your email provider, who is your email provider and what is it about their service that makes you happy?

jethronethro•3h ago
Best can be such a loaded word, especially in this case. What's best for one person might not be for someone else. Preferred is a better term.

As for my preferred email provider, that's Fastmail.

aristofun•2h ago
Not quite. Yes, modern email services are not commodities. But email itself is.

And if you breakdown all features you can easily (in theory) draw a multidimensional plot where youll see a group of winners at least.

jethronethro•1h ago
Winners? Or just potential choices?
wnissen•1h ago
I chose Migadu because they seem to be genuinely helpful and are very affordable. I probably would have gone Proton but they don't support forwarding.

The downside is that downloading messages is fairly slow when you have 10-20k messages in your inbox. And the webmail is fairly primitive.

I never tried Fastmail.

Brajeshwar•38m ago
I’m also a happy Migadu customer, and I have never had to interact with their support. I use it for most of my domains, except for a few that are work-related.

For Webmail, I have been meaning to try https://roundcube.net

You can try it out at https://www.pikapods.com/apps#email to see if this works for you.

msgodel•1h ago
I use easymail.ca. I'm not sure if they're the best but they're good enough.
browningstreet•1h ago
Honest question: I find email to be almost useless now. I get a hundred emails across 3-4 personal accounts and I read almost none of them. I do scan them.. noise is high and signal is low, but not entirely possible to ignore completely.

I wanted to like hey.com for some of their enhanced email management tools but I didn’t like the platform in general.

I can’t believe no one lets me set “keep 30 days of this newsletter but delete the rest”. Setting filter rules per email in Gmail feels silly. With newsletters, value is inversely proportional to receive date.

What I’m getting at is.. best email provider and options for someone who is kinda, but not entirely, done with email..? Most email platforms still treat email as a first class communication platform, but for me, it definitely isn’t.

justarobert•43m ago
How do you wind up getting that many emails that you don't want? I'm genuinely curious because I get a couple of emails a day, and they're usually ones that I wanted to get. High spam volume and poor filtering from the email provider? Signing up for every newsletter and never unsubscribing?
browningstreet•37m ago
Lots of travel things, github things, tech things, solopreneur things, seasonal things, banking things, etc.

Almost no human emails.

unethical_ban•1h ago
I only have experience with Proton. You must use their client or the web UI, or a "bridge" to standard IMAP. That's annoying.

But I know it's private, and I can generate email aliases to use for each service I sign up for.

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