[ale] Very cheap basic mail hosting with IMAP

[Leam Hall]

Hover.com has a mail forwarder for $5 a year. Not sure if that meets your
technical requirements.


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:07 AM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> As I said, I'm not asking for much. :)  Literally the RAM alone in the
> server would be enough.
>
> On 2020-02-25 18:32, SpaXpert, Inc. wrote:
> > $10 a year???
> > Wow.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 5:15 PM Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I think that's a bit much, I don't really need to double up like that, I
> >> just want to boomerang a select set of automated messages from my
> >> systems to my phone.  Having a server pulling from Protonmail seems like
> >> a few extra hoops.
> >>
> >> I was really hoping for something like a $10/year cheap plan with maybe
> >> a dozen MB of storage space and IMAP.
> >>
> >> On 2020-02-24 05:56, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> Set up a mail service on a cheap vps using the protonmail bridge that
> >> you connect your phone to.
> >>>
> >>> On February 24, 2020 7:14:08 AM EST, Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> It's also wholly dependent on a corporation that merely grants you, by
> >>>> its providence and favor, continuous permission to use as *they* see
> >>>> fit. The service is theirs to control at their whim, and you have no
> >>>> leverage over them whatsoever. That it is also the "much easier
> >>>> solution" is no accident.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2/23/20 11:49 PM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> >>>>> 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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