[plug] TPG group no longer providing email

[Chris McCormick]

Hi,

On 2/8/23 10:10 am, William Kenworthy wrote:
> What are others considering?


I run my own mailserver but I must admit it's got a bit iffy in recent 
years. When it came time to set up my kids with an email what I did was 
buy a domain for them on gandi.net (great hosting company based in 
Europe) and then pay for two mailboxes attached to the domain.

It costs 3 euro per month per mailbox, with the first year free. Gandi 
provides webmail (Roundcube and one other option) and all the usual 
stuff like DKIM, spam filtering, etc. etc. At first I was hesitant 
because of the price but I realized that there are a number of advantages:

- We control the domain so in future we can move if we want.
- They take care of a lot of very annoying mail sysadmin compliance and 
maintainance stuff noted above.
- Unlike Gmail it's just a standard IMAP box with no silly Google Auth 
nonsense.
- They seem to care a lot about privacy.
- Email is a pretty critical piece of life-infrastructure so it's worth 
the small monetary cost.

Working well so far.

I think this is a good balance between full blown running your own email 
server and going with a mainstream provider. The level of control, 
independence, and lack of fuss is better than both extreme ends of the 
spectrum.


Cheers,

Chris.

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