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Google workspace alternative (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by gedw99@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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I don't need all the stuff they offer.

I ONLY need email@mydomain.blah...

Anything out there thats free or self hosted just for this.

Porkbun is pretty decent but actually is 25 USD a year, and so same as a single Google workspace account.

Or self host email with a basic web email gui.

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[–] Appropriate_Link9865@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you don't need a dedicated mailbox, just buy the domain from a provider like cloudflare or Google that supports email forwarding. Google forwards all emails to @mydomain to my Gmail account for free.

If you also need outgoing email, sign up for an SMTP relay. I use mailjet, and their free tier offers high enough limits for my personal use. Within Gmail, I added the SMTP settings from mailjet, and I can now send email from my custom email address by just selecting it in the compose page.

[–] gedw99@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thats genius !!!

thanks for the tip. I have Cloudflare account and saw email routing in there somewhere.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/solved-how-to-use-gmail-smtp-to-send-from-an-email-address-which-uses-cloudflare-email-routing/382769/2 looks like the setup ?

Then in gmail when I reply to an email, it will however show its coming my my gmail ? thats always been the tricky one eh ?

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