[MlMt] good email providers that play well w/ MailMate [was: moving my mail from one server to another—will my IMAP mailboxes & their contents survive the move?]

[John Doherty]

I switched to fastmail after 15 or 16 years of hosting my own mail 
server.

I've been really happy with them. Migrating all my old mail was a snap 
and happened much more quickly than I expected. They also have 
MailMate-specific setup instructions, so they are MailMate-friendly at 
least to that extent:

<https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280001-How-to-set-up-MailMate>

I don't remember whether I had to use their instructions or not, the 
whole thing was pretty simple and straightforward.

I'm using their "standard" 30 GB plan. Paying up front for a couple of 
years brought the price down to a little less than $4/month.

Honestly, I should have done something like this years ago. Hosting my 
own mail server cost a lot more and although it was sort of fun and 
educational in its time, that hadn't actually been the case for a long 
time.

So FWIW, happy fastmail customer here. I expect to stick with them for a 
long time.

On Wed 2023-04-12 11:55 AM MDT -0600, <ken at kenpope.com> wrote:

> *Thanks* for the continued stream of great info.
>
> My plan to move to a much cheaper dedicated server crashed when I 
> discovered that a much cheaper dedicated server couldn’t deliver 
> what I needed.
>
> Part of Plan B includes finding a good, secure email provider that (a) 
> will accept my domain name, (b) plays well with Mail Mate, (c) will 
> allow me to import my current array of emails, & (d) allows sufficient 
> storage (e.g., StartMail looks great but has an inflexible limit of 
> only 10G storage for all plans).
>
> The following prospects made the initial cuts of my research.  I’d 
> appreciate your comments about any of the following or any other 
> provider you recommend or warn against.
>
> MailFence
> Proton
> Fastmail
> Thexyz
> Scala Hosting
> mailbox.org
>
> Thanks as always for your help.