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I use zoho. The free tier lets you use your own domain and so far that's been plenty for me.

No IMAP on their free tier but their Lite tier doesn't appear to be missing anything important and is only $12/year/user.

Previously (2 years ago), someone on a list I'm on reported they tried Zoho (after using Google and before switching to Fastmail) but A) found customer support to be terrible and B) their email was being treated as spam by a couple of big providers (Yahoo and AOL). I'm not too concerned about the customer support opinion but delivery is job #1, it's a major reason why I won't consider self-hosting email.

I used zoho for a long time, but they started removing features from the free tier, like IMAP/POP access, so you're forced to use their client and can't backup your emails.

B/c I use gmail for my personal email, I found that if I didn't have a unified inbox, I would miss reading important emails.

> they started removing features from the free tier, like IMAP/POP access, so you're forced to use their client and can't backup your emails.

Just a heads up: I was looking through their website [1] recently, and found that they'll let you go onto the trial if you're solely looking to move away from their email service.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html#:~:text=Can%...

Hey, just to clarify, as someone who has been on the Zoho Mail team, of course our plans have undergone changes, the free plan including. But we always grandfather our existing users, we removed support only for new signups. If a feature was available when someone signed up for the tier, it will always be available.

Be careful. Zoho could perform a Google style rug-pull on you. Always scout for other options in that scenario. Personally I enjoy Purelymail[0]

[0] https://purelymail.com/

Yeah, I understand. But, so far (about 3 years), they've been really good.

I also, back up any important emails. The rest, I can lose and not cry.

Edit: Purelymail might be interesting if they had calendar syncing. Maybe when they've grown a bit more.

Well I've had my free gsuite account for almost 15 years so you still have some time before you get to Google levels of screwed over.

Purelymail has calendar syncing using CalDAV.

> Zoho could perform a Google style rug-pull on you.

Zoho has done so, with the removal of POP/IMAP for their free tier without any notice.

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