OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?

[Russell L. Harris]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:43:02PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:
>I've always just run my own (Linux) email server locally in my home
>office, but my current Internet service is soon going to be going away
>and I was wondering if it would make sense to move to some sort of
>mail-hosting company as part of reorganizing my network setup.
>
>So on the theory that there are likely to be other users of advanced
>email-server functionality among the Mutt folks, I thought I would ask
>here to see if anyone has recommendations for mail hosting services that
>target neither "consumer" nor "enterprise" clients, but somewhere in the
>middle (and which play nicely with Mutt and other IMAP clients)?
>
>For example, a service that allows unlimited "aliases" for a set of
>domains, pointing to a handful of "user mailboxes" which actually
>receive email?
>
>Or alternatively some service that queues incoming Internet mail for my
>domains and then allows the queued email to be fetched by my local mail
>server for local delivery (thus avoiding having an open SMTP port on my
>home connection to the Internet)?
>
>(I currently host a few domains and deliver mail to ~5 users via hundreds
>of aliases....)
>
>Thanks for any ideas I should consider.



Take advantage of hosting sales (such as Hostgator currently is running)
and set up a mail system on a shared host.  Cheap and reliable; a wealth of
features, but easy to set up.  

Then use getmail to download mail to your local machine where you run Mutt.  

RLH


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