Good email host?

[TheAngryDog]

I currently have my personal email hosted with TSOHOST who have just rapidly gone downhill for me after they moved my email to a new server (my email client / phone client struggle to connect now despite re-configuring from scratch). TSO say that because their own internally hosted webmail client connects with no issues, that they're not interested. So I am looking to move away from TSOHOST to a (hopefully) decent email host that will actually work.

Does anyone have any recommendations please? I have a few mailboxes so I need a host that can accommodate those and also that allows me to use Thunderbird / phone email sync.

Thanks!

[skeggysteve]

I've used Blink Web for the last year or so and am happy to recommend them.

Owned by a a guy on here, Hants rat I think.

Link

[srappy]

Why not one of the big players like GMail, Outlook? If they go down then we are all in trouble!

[MonkeyBusiness]

The founder of Vidahost (which turned into/bought out by TSO Host and rapidly went down hill) started a company called Stablepoint which are excellent.

[Matt..]

srappy said:

Why not one of the big players like GMail, Outlook? If they go down then we are all in trouble!

I'd be tempted to do this as it's just easier and unlikely to fail.

I use GMail for this purpose, but it's expensive. Outlook is much cheaper. It's also coming to Apple iCloud+.

[AJB88]

Proton with one of their paid support accounts.

[TheAngryDog]

srappy said:

Why not one of the big players like GMail, Outlook? If they go down then we are all in trouble!

The problem is that my hosts servers are ste, so using Gmail or Outlook won't get around that.

[TheAngryDog]

Thanks everyone up to now, I will check these out!

[Matt..]

TheAngryDog said:

The problem is that my hosts servers are ste, so using Gmail or Outlook won't get around that.

Why? You just point the domain at Gmail/Outlook/Apple and configure it. Everything then goes via them. Your other servers wouldn't be involved in any way.

[anonymous-user]

Google

[tog]

I've been using Fastmail for years and have been very happy with them.

https://www.fastmail.com

[anonymous-user]

TheAngryDog said:

The problem is that my hosts servers are ste, so using Gmail or Outlook won't get around that.

You don't even need to use your hosts servers. You use the Gmail servers.

[stewies_minion]

Office 365? Fault free for > 7 years for me.

[Monsterlime]

Another vote for Fastmail, again used them for years and very pleased with it. Web interface is so good I don't need a thick client and their mobile apps are pretty much identical, so no need to learn a different interface etc.

[egomeister]

TheAngryDog said:

I currently have my personal email hosted with TSOHOST who have just rapidly gone downhill for me after they moved my email to a new server (my email client / phone client struggle to connect now despite re-configuring from scratch). TSO say that because their own internally hosted webmail client connects with no issues, that they're not interested. So I am looking to move away from TSOHOST to a (hopefully) decent email host that will actually work.

Does anyone have any recommendations please? I have a few mailboxes so I need a host that can accommodate those and also that allows me to use Thunderbird / phone email sync.

Thanks!

I have had exactly the same issue, they have turned into an utter shower of st. I quite liked the old control panel too.

I have my main email addresses working now, but I'm not entirely sure how I managed it as I had the same run around from the tech support. Something like I reset the password server side (even to the same password), then re-entered it in outlook on the client end but i'm not 100% what actually made it work.

[bristoltype603]

Matt.. said:

Why? You just point the domain at Gmail/Outlook/Apple and configure it. Everything then goes via them. Your other servers wouldn't be involved in any way.

^^^This. It 2021 for goodness sake. Unless we're missing something here?

[egomeister]

bristoltype603 said:

Matt.. said:

Why? You just point the domain at Gmail/Outlook/Apple and configure it. Everything then goes via them. Your other servers wouldn't be involved in any way.

^^^This. It 2021 for goodness sake. Unless we're missing something here?

My issue with that is I run multiple emails over various domians, so paying on an account by account basis gets expensive very quickly - hence I use a hosting package that supports multiple domains.

[TheAngryDog]

bulldong said:

TheAngryDog said:

The problem is that my hosts servers are ste, so using Gmail or Outlook won't get around that.

You don't even need to use your hosts servers. You use the Gmail servers.

Nothing I can find (other than paying for Google Workspace) seems to let me bring my own domain over. What am I missing?

[MortyC137]

Google. It's a no-brainer.

O365 is fine, but Google's spam detection is miles ahead of anything else.

[MortyC137]

TheAngryDog said:

Nothing I can find (other than paying for Google Workspace) seems to let me bring my own domain over. What am I missing?

Nothing, that's exactly how you do it.