[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?]

[Simon Kaplan (Personal)]

Yep, same.  Shifted to Fastmail (from using Google services) about 18 
months ago, its worked perfectly.  Highly recommend it.

cheers
Simon
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“Succass is not final.  Failure is not fatal.  It is the courage to 
continue that counts.”  (Winston Churchill)

On 13 Apr 2023, at 5:37, John Doherty wrote:

> 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.
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