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

[Daryl]

On Sat, 01 Feb 2020 17:08:37 -0500
Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:

> 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

Why not just build your own? You can get a very small EC2 instance for
pretty cheap. Then pick your poison exim/postfix/dovcot/roundcube or
whatever.