Just wondering people know the new Zoho alternative for email hosting?
That was great for looking time as supporting early stage business. However, I'm struggling to find a free hosting where you can bring your own domain.
Best I've found is purelyemail.com where you do around $6-$7 per year and bring multiple domains.
Any suggestions would be great?
Apparently Gmail no longer lets you use their own SMTP servers for "Send mail as." , so that is another complication. You need Brevo SMTP relay or similar.
Lark Suite may be worth checking.
You can still use their smtp, need to set up a google app password but I'd look at a few reddits for additional steps to make everything good.
Zoho itself is pretty cheap, I hate their UI though, it's janky. You could set up an email forward through your registrar for free to forward the emails to your gmail.
Or you could use a free Mailgun account, use Mailgun's inbound routing to instantly forward incoming mail to a normal mailbox like your free Gmail account. For sending email, plug Mailgun's SMTP server settings directly into the "Send mail as" section of your Gmail settings.
I use Fastmail's now $90 a year service for personal email with personal domains. Mxroute for some clients because I know the owner is crazy enough to keep it going indefinitely and some clients actually prefer that kind of email setup. If you have Office365, that includes a solution for a custom domain email I believe.
There's a lot of things you can do, but with your requirement of multiple domains (more than 10?) you'll probably want to pay if you don't want to host email yourself, and believe me you don't want to do that.
Thanks for sharing. That's all good when monetized. Then even Zoho is good.
Just trying to find cheap option in early days which trying to build business. Zoho was amazing while it lasted. It's now paid
What's your business, are you ready to start selling your service or product but can't find leads?
It's more of community project.
Nothing to sell as such.
Hence get cost zero or low so that it can just keep going even if not monetized
Not free, but a Business Basic license is all you need to do this in the Microsoft ecosystem - about $108 a year. Includes online MS apps too.
Thanks. Looking for non Microsoft solution
I don't love Microsoft, but pretty much every business uses it. If you do any B2B, you're going to be the weird one. It's far easier to just work with it than try to migrate later when you realise this.
I don't particularly like a lot of Microsoft's stuff, but I did use it when I set up my sister's online business. The most important factor for me is ease of management. How hard is it to set things up, add and remove users, fix problems, hand it all off to someone else, etc. Microsoft ticks a lot of boxes there, enough for me to put aside qualms.
Google Workspace Starter is $10/month, or $100/yr . (1 user)
Exchange Online (Plan 1) is $80/year if you want only email hosting.
Business Basic adds Onedrive on top of that and is worthwhile for the extra $28/year
I use iCloud plus, $1.50 a month.
Can only create 3 emails per domain I believe
It looks good. I think 3 email accounts, but "Allow All Incoming Messages" allows you to receive emails sent to any address on your domain, if that helps.
Yea only 3, but can have lots of aliases.
I use STMP2GO's free plan + Gmail send as for sending emails, and cloudflare email forwarding for recieving. All free except for the domain. I use this for a custom personal email address.
If you qualify as per Google’s rules, you can get workspace for free.
Good luck with the verification process. Are you registered with the ATO as a non-profit or charity?
I have used Zoho mail. Its alright for free honestly. Nothing bad 5gb limit on email if that bothers you. Otherwise you can also just forward emails using
cloudflare dns too (that is mail forward only, no replies from custom domain etc included).
I think spaceship does email forwarding for free too I have one of the domains from them and they forward me all emails for free.
Cloudflare email forwarding
i pay $70 a year for hosting
I personally use iCloud+ currently (don't even own an iPhone/Mac lol) for 1.50 a month (and you get 50GB storage as well)
However the cheapest I've found is also Purelymail - have used them before for a small organisation and it worked fine (although their webmail had a short outage once or twice in the year I used it - didn't lose any emails though)
Thanks. Yeah I'm inclined towards purely email as well.
I'll give that a try
I use Proton Mail which includes Simple Login with I believe unlimited domains, costs money but I could imagine there are privacy concerns for sending your emails to a free host
Many domain registrars offer email forwarding. You can then forward your emails to Gmail / Outlook or other free emails. You do leak your Gmail / Outlook address when you reply though.