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Their AI push is what convinced me to leave gmail and go buy my own domain. I don't want it.

what do you use as your client?

I'm not the poster you're replying to, but i did the same thing and use Purelymail (and their web interface, which i think is open-source)

it's a very cheap no-nonsense service, i recommend it

Also not the poster you're replying to, but I get email with ProtonVPN, which I've linked to my domain.

I'm not without my questions about them as a company, but Google are getting beyond a joke.

Full migration away is coming with next phone upgrade.

+1 for Purelymail. Most things that appear to be too good to be true are not true. Purelymail is the real deal.

Over the years I've recommended Migadu and still do. Affordable and reliable with usage based pricing.

As for the email client I personally prefer Thunderbird on PC and FairEmail on Android.

https://migadu.com/

https://email.faircode.eu/

Fairemail is great. Better than Thunderbird and any other mail client around. Every so often I see a new mail client pop up for Android advertising that it does X better than any other client; I look at it and it's either built on top of either aosp or some other oss email client (or a rewrite of same) with X feature bolted on, often with numerous features missing. If you want a full email client, go with fairemail.

Reminder to take a look at what nontrivial OSS software you use every day that you've never paid for, and consider a donation (I recommend GitHub sponsorship as a method that currently charges no fees to either the donor or the recipient)

I just signed up given the low price, got it setup with K-9 POP on my phone. Gotta say that is a very simple and easy to follow setup. Compared with something like Zoho where I get lost everytime I need to navigate around.

I'm really liking this, thanks for the recommendation.

I've been pretty happy on Fastmail as a custom-domain email host the last few years.

I ended up on Zoho because I wanted to be cheap. So far that's worked out well for me.

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