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I don’t know that I could recommend any alternative at all. I’ve no experience of FastMail, but this same thing could happen just as easily with any provider.

I don’t know that I could recommend any alternative at all. I’ve no experience of FastMail, but this same thing could happen just as easily with any provider. You’re basically left to rely on the opaque internal policies of the email provider to prevent your online identity being revoked, which is one of the many reasons why so many people would rather self-host in the first place. Sorry I can’t help you out with my two cents here. I’ve never heard of such things happening with FastMail, but then I hadn’t heard about it happening with ProtonMail either until it did.

hardwaresofton 4y ago
Well thanks for offering your experience at least -- I've updated the post to at least list some of the alternatives. Self-hosting is the end-goal but it looks like the in-between is still murky as well. Maybe what it really takes is people springing up to fill the gaps of a closer-to-self-host solution (so you have full control) w/ deliverability auto-solved (automatic purchase of some external relay or something). Like a service that purchases a VPS in your name, sets it up, then essentially disconnects (or offers to manage the service for a fee). Of course there's stuff out there like Cloudron etc so maybe that's part of the way forward as well -- but I wonder if Cloudron could ever really reach a completely non-technical user.