[plug] TPG group no longer providing email

[Stephen Boak]

I've done the same to move from Westnet/iiNet whose service has been 
declining lately with very slow email delivery and cancelled web hosing. 
With VentraIp, got my own domain for $19.95/year, email hosting $5/month 
for 30GB of mail storage, and it's all based in Australia.

https://ventraip.com.au/email-hosting/

And on that note, how do I change my email address for this list?

If it's an admin task, by new email is steve at boak.au

Thanks

Steve


On 2/8/2023 1:04 pm, Chris McCormick wrote:
> 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.
>