{"slug": "mxroute", "name": "MXRoute", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.162, "rising": 1.35, "first": "2025-12-18", "latest": "2026-10-18", "why": "I can recommend mxroute.com and purelymail.com - I've used both, and both work well", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I can recommend mxroute.com and purelymail.com - I've used both, and both work well", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "mxroute.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://mxroute.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["MXRoute", "mxroute", "MxRoute", "MXroute"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 799385408, "item_id": 49961588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961588", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-10-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their pricing makes much more sense to me", "excerpt": "I just looked at their website. Even without the lifetime plan, their pricing makes much more sense to me. You basically pay for the management account and the storage, which is really the thing that cost money. It never made sense to me that you need to pay for storage per email account, if you use a custom domain. It I use 10GB why should it matter than I have it split over two email accounts? Looks really interest", "context": "", "use_case": "custom domain email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "All I wanted was a custom domain email"}, {"id": 789592753, "item_id": 49349547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349547", "by": "dogcow", "date": "2026-08-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I can recommend mxroute.com and purelymail.com - I've used both, and both work well", "excerpt": "I was a long-time Fastmail customer for probably about 10 years. I had all my family members using it, but just finished migrating everyone away. They changed their pricing plans several years back, but kept me on the grandfathered pricing, which was very reasonable. Then earlier this year, they more than doubled my annual price, at which point I felt it was no longer worth it. At a certain point, e-mail is e-mail. F", "context": "", "use_case": "IMAP email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail"}, {"id": 747842368, "item_id": 46740148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740148", "by": "eigencoder", "date": "2026-01-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like their pricing model.", "excerpt": "Last year I started self-hosting and went with [MXRoute](https://mxroute.com/). It was pretty easy to switch and I really like their pricing model.", "context": "Started self-hosting email last year", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem"}, {"id": 741043904, "item_id": 46315244, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315244", "by": "smivan", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I picked a small, dedicated email provider [1] over Google Workspace", "excerpt": "This is one of the reasons I picked a small, dedicated email provider [1] over Google Workspace for my corporate emails. If Google flips out and ban hammers us for no reason, my company will still be able to reach clients and work on projects. Apple, Google and Facebook are way too trigger happy with automated bans and no recourse. 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Which actually caused quite a bit of problems with Teams original because it REALLY expects you to use exchange - You use OneDrive for storage For large files only, or files that are shared in chat - Yo", "context": "runs Linux; company mostly on Windows", "use_case": "company email", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"}, {"id": 799385408, "item_id": 49961588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961588", "by": "mrweasel", "date": "2026-10-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their pricing makes much more sense to me", "excerpt": "I just looked at their website. Even without the lifetime plan, their pricing makes much more sense to me. You basically pay for the management account and the storage, which is really the thing that cost money. It never made sense to me that you need to pay for storage per email account, if you use a custom domain. It I use 10GB why should it matter than I have it split over two email accounts? 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F", "context": "", "use_case": "IMAP email hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail"}, {"id": 771502802, "item_id": 48218925, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218925", "by": "Lukas_Skywalker", "date": "2026-05-21", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "and MxRoute doesn't.", "excerpt": "Now that I looked closer, you seem to be right. Hotmail does it as well. But Gandi didn't back when I used it, and MxRoute doesn't. That's probably why I was surprised.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"}, {"id": 747842368, "item_id": 46740148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740148", "by": "eigencoder", "date": "2026-01-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like their pricing model.", "excerpt": "Last year I started self-hosting and went with [MXRoute](https://mxroute.com/). 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