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I would go with Fastmail if you want someone else to host it - but if your email is very important to you, you should be running your own server, or hosting wit

I would go with Fastmail if you want someone else to host it - but if your email is very important to you, you should be running your own server, or hosting with someone you know and trust on a personal basis. Anything else is susceptible to the "scary letter" attack where they threaten your service provider with something awful, and the service provider shuts you down because it's easier to lose a non-paying (or $10/month) customer than it is to deal with some pissed-off law firm or transnational corp.

dangrossman 15y ago
As long as you control the domain, that's really not very scary. Use IMAP so you always have a copy of your own mail on a computer somewhere, even if you also choose to access it over webmail/Gmail/whatever. If some provider shuts you down, open up somewhere else and you're back as fast as DNS caches expire. Running your own POP/IMAP server is simple, running your own SMTP server and keeping delivery reliable creates a bunch of extra work.