Email services when using Forge

I use Mailgun.

If you want a mail account rather than transactional emails like Mandrill and Mailgun then I suggest Google Apps for Business (Paid - But you get gmail and all the their other apps) but there is also Zoho which is a free alternative.

Thanks @joshbruce. I'm looking for email accounts with webmail. Google Apps for Business could be a solution but I don't want that Google read my emails... I will take a look at Zoho.

I'm with

• Hover, email and domain
• DigitalOcean, hosting
• Forge, management

I founded a few more :

• Rackspace Email hosting
• Pobox
• Fastmail

Will probably go with Rackspace, who looks very interesting and not to expensive for small companies.

I use Mandrill and can highly recommend it.

If you use RackSpace cloud servers, you get a Mailgun account which includes 50,000 msg/month.

Edit: Sorry, didn't see you were looking for full email hosting. Mailgun would be transactional, only.

Is there any option to host emails directly on forge instance? We were using VPS by hosting providers and emails were always there. I am not talking about transactional email but regular email address.

@cameleo @equipc If you have no Linux Knowledge i wouldnt to this! And because you ask this question, i assume you dont have any Linux knowledge. Specially Email hosting ist a bit complex & sensitive.

Heres a nice article about mail hosting: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/why-you-may-not-want-to-run-your-own-mail-server

Anyway if you want to host your own Mailaccount, read trough postfix & Dovecot.

A forge server is just a regular server, so log in into your machine and go for the installation & configuration.

@equipc If you are looking for a good email hosting provider, go for Rackspace. Awesome Support, support for SSL, Spam filters and if you want you can also archive your emails. So you will never loose your mails. And you dont have to care about problems with your email server.

My personal workflow. Forge to manage DO servers for hosting. Hover for domain & dns (Free dns cheap registrations) Zoho for email (25 email addresses free) and they have clean mobile and web apps for clients to use.

Mailgun is great and works with laravel really well. It is built by rackspace I think.

You have to authorsize your domain which can take some time and may cause issue if you done have ability to add TXT record.

If using domain on WHM or CPANEL it can mess with the mail text record and remove spaces and is a bit tricky with subdomains.

Have not used mandril as yet. but had a lot of issues using regular smpt server on forge. Anyone had much luck with google smtp on forge and laravel email?

After trying out both Zoho and MailChimp, I would highly recommend Zoho for sending and receiving emails and MailChimp for SMTP respectively. The configuration process for both platforms was incredibly easy and straightforward.