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Personal: Fastmail. - Pro: Easy to set up many domains and aliases. Reliable. Handles DKIM signing for all your domains for you. Mobile application maintaine

Personal: Fastmail. - Pro: Easy to set up many domains and aliases. Reliable. Handles DKIM signing for all your domains for you. Mobile application maintained by Fastmail. Web and mobile UX is good. - Con: HQ under AU jurisdiction and at potential risk of dystopian regulations. - Con Mitigating Controls: Use Thunderbird to pull all your emails off the server. Thunderbird makes GPG encryption very easy. Teach your circle of friends and colleagues how to use GPG. Export your Thunderbird data to a set of encrypted USB drives, maybe one for each week of the month as USB drives can fail. People will provide anecdotes saying GPG is too hard but I have a dissenting view as I have taught a myriad of non-technical people to do this. Corporate: Microsoft 365 - Pro: Designed for businesses. Highly customizable global rules, legal controls, retention policies. Integration with many corporate services, AD, 3rd party applications, etc... Better CapEx/OpEx numbers than self hosting once your company has grown beyond a certain size, varies by industry. - Con: Expensive... Being abused more these days by spammers that assume approve-list trust of O365 endpoints. Your IT people will need to spend some time on tuning rules or front-end O365 with something like ProofPoint also expensive ______________ If I were starting a small business and wanted to host my own email servers, I would have Postfix relays in every datacenter/VM location that relay to a CommuniGate Pro cluster but that is a whole topic in and of itself. The Postfix entry-points would eliminate some riff-raff using simple regex rules S25R methodology. The Postfix relays would also have TLS mapping to enforce TLS certificate depth for specific domains. I would expect to deprecate this system once my company is medium-large unless I am willing to spend the OpEx/CapEx on managing this. For financial institutions it may be worth the OpEx/CapEx to comply with the myriad of regulations such as data vaulting and listing who specifically has access to the data. Audits, compliance, governance and all that fun

solardev 4y ago
As a user, have to hard disagree on Microsoft 365. It is laughably bad compared to Google. Microsoft email is by far the worst I've ever used, even worse than the old pop3 days. The client is shit, the spam filtering is shit, the UI is shit, it's all just so terrible. That's just email. Outlook is a joke compared to Gcal. You can't even find a declined event again. And Word, Excel, etc. are soooo far behind Google. Teams is a nightmare all its own. I can't say enough bad things about this suite. The whole suite feels like one of those things suits sell to other suits because they never actually have to sit down and work with it. I never want to work for a company that uses Microsoft 365 again. What a nightmare.
- LinuxBender 4y ago
  Not disagreeing with you from the end-user perspective, but AFAIK there are no other solutions that meet all the needs of businesses short of self hosting something like CommuniGate and even that has it's short-comings. Some businesses are trying to use Google and some move back off of it. Corporate email has always been a quadruple edged rusty sword. But I agree it is a nightmare.

solardev 4y ago

As a user, have to hard disagree on Microsoft 365. It is laughably bad compared to Google. Microsoft email is by far the worst I've ever used, even worse than the old pop3 days. The client is shit, the spam filtering is shit, the UI is shit, it's all just so terrible. That's just email. Outlook is a joke compared to Gcal. You can't even find a declined event again. And Word, Excel, etc. are soooo far behind Google. Teams is a nightmare all its own. I can't say enough bad things about this suite. The whole suite feels like one of those things suits sell to other suits because they never actually have to sit down and work with it. I never want to work for a company that uses Microsoft 365 again. What a nightmare.

LinuxBender 4y ago
Not disagreeing with you from the end-user perspective, but AFAIK there are no other solutions that meet all the needs of businesses short of self hosting something like CommuniGate and even that has it's short-comings. Some businesses are trying to use Google and some move back off of it. Corporate email has always been a quadruple edged rusty sword. But I agree it is a nightmare.