[ale] Very cheap basic mail hosting with IMAP

[Alex Carver]

The bridge won't work with my phone.  Currently I have my phone making
the direct IMAP access (and also IMAP push) to retrieve the messages.


On 2020-02-23 05:06, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Protonmail free account with the imap bridge?
> 
> On February 23, 2020 3:34:12 AM EST, Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> Anyone have a suggestion for a very cheap mail host that can handle
>> just
>> a couple messages per day with IMAP capability?  I have domains
>> registered through Godaddy right now and they've suddenly decided that
>> the basic single mail address they provide with domains is going away
>> in
>> favor of MS Exchange/Office 365 and they will be charging for it.
>>
>> I use it to send time critical messages that my machines generate to my
>> phone (monitored by K9 mail) because it's cheaper than sending text
>> messages to my phone (I pay per message).  I don't need much at all,
>> the
>> messages are stripped down by procmail before sending them out so
>> they're only like 1 kB or so and I delete them shortly after receiving
>> them so I don't even need much storage.  I already run my mail server
>> at
>> home but this is a secondary path that exists outside of my network for
>> a little redundancy.  I don't need to transfer the domains or buy
>> another one necessarily, I can just point the MX records at the host.
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