[ale] Very cheap basic mail hosting with IMAP

[Alex Carver]

I already use Gmail and it's not fully reliable.  Every time I come off
wifi and onto the cellular network Google blocks my mail access until I
respond to an email asking me if it was me that connected to my email.
It happens Every. Single. Day.  It's really frustrating which is why I
wanted something else.

It's also very slow.  Sometimes I don't get updated for half an hour or
more because they don't support IMAP push where the other server I'm
using will send me the notification in a matter of seconds.

On 2020-02-23 20:13, SpaXpert, Inc. wrote:
> Gmail is a much easier solution.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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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