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There are two sides of email: sending and receiving. They use different protocols and often different servers. How about self hosting an IMAP/POP3 server and se

There are two sides of email: sending and receiving. They use different protocols and often different servers. How about self hosting an IMAP/POP3 server and sending mail through the SMTP server of the registrar for your domain? I didn't investigate the feasibility but I own two domains and I'm sending email for both from the SMTP server of one of them (can't even remember why, so long time passed since it happened.) I receive on their separate POP3 accounts, check with K9 on Android (the original UI version) and download and filter to folders with Thunderbird when I have to.

supermatt 5y ago
Being a bit of a pedant here, but you aren't "receiving" mail via POP3, you are "retrieving". The sending and receiving (i.e. transfer) are both part of SMTP. If you want to self host your own mailboxes (e.g. IMAP/POP3) you will need some way to get the mail into them (mail delivery) which is also (usually) SMTP. But your point definitely stands - You can handle the inbound side and outsource the outbound mail delivery issues.