Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

[Jack]

On 2020.02.06 17:36, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 17:08 -0500, Jack wrote:
>> CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open
>> attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is
>> safe.
I didn't write that. :-)
> >
> > Relying on the collective experience and advice of the group here.
> >
>> As may be obvious to many of you, the address this message is sent
>> from "...@×××××××××××××××××.net" isn't really a fully functional
>> address. Email sent to that address will be forwarded by the
>> sourceforge system to a personal address I specify.  When I send a
>> message "From: " that address, however, I cannot send it through the
>> sourceforge system, as I don't actually have an email account with
>> them.  Currently, I send it through my gmail account.  That works
>> because I added that address in my gmail Settings under "Accounts
>> and Import" /  "Send mail as:".  To set it up, gmail sends a message
>> to that address, and I click on a link in the message to prove it
>> does come to me.  That's been working find for a long time, but, ...
> >
>> I'm trying to move away from gmail.  Especially for mailing lists
>> like this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I
>> get the message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in
>> my inbox because it's a duplicate of a message already in my sentbox.
> >
>> I do have an email account with privateemail.com (thorough
>> namecheap.com) but they are unable or unwilling to have a similar
>> setup.  I'm not even sure they actually understand what I'm asking
>> of them, but I've wasted more than enough time trying.
> >
>> So - I'm asking if anyone can recommend an email service provider
>> that understands this and will let me set it up.  I have my own
>> domain, but namecheap.com does seem willing to have the appropriate
>> DNS record point to a different email provider.  At this point, I'm
>> not interested in running my own email server.  I currently only
>> need two mailboxes, maybe a small number more in the future, but
>> this is personal, not commercial.  I don't need to do bulk emails,
>> maybe up to a dozen or so recipients.  I do NOT expect it to be
>> free, but cost is at least some consideration.  I don't need huge
>> storage limits, as although I use IMAP access when on the road, when
>> I'm home, I use POP3 to download everything.  I'd also like at least
>> minimal control over spam filtering, mainly to let almost anything
>> through for me to filter locally.  If privateemail.com has false
>> positives for everything from some sender (such as ups.com, for
>> example) I need to open a ticket with them to add a whitelist.  No
>> such thing as clicking on "Not spam" and apparently no intent to
>> ever do so.
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions.
> >
> > Jack
Laurence,

Thanks for the feedback.

> You might talk to your ISP.  A number of them offer custom email
> hosting to businesses and will maintain the server for you, but allow
> you a rather customized configuration.  So kind of like having your
> own server along with someone to manage it for you.
Well, I'm in Connecticut, and my current ISP is Comcast, previous ISP  
Frontier, and I wish to have as little as possible to do with either of  
them.  A major part of the whole reason I'm doing this is to be able to  
switch ISPs without having to do anything at all and still have my  
email flow.
>
> If you do end up running your own system, look through your options
> thoroughly.  Sure you can set up just a simple email server, but
> there are also projects like http://citadel.org/doku.php that offer
> more, integrated features for an experience similar to gmail, but
> without the spying.
That certainly looks interesting, but claiming it's at all like gmail  
is not a selling point for me.

Jack