OT: "domain-level" email hosting services?

[raf]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 08:43:02PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway <muttlists at nathanst.com> 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.
> 
> 						Nathan

A cheap virtual private server running postfix, dovecot, amavis,
spamassassin or rspamd, postfix-policyd-spf-perl, OpenDKIM, and
OpenDMARC will do the trick if you don't mind the hassle of setting
everything up. :-)

cheers,
raf