# Looking for email hosting service recommendations

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-email-hosting-service-recommendations/70850
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [September 27, 2017, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-email-hosting-service-recommendations/70850 "2017-09-27T04:21:45Z")
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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2017, 7:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-email-hosting-service-recommendations/70850/3 "2017-09-27T07:53:06Z")

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For incoming email, you could use this - no external service required! It’s worked flawlessly for me 🙂

> [@Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver](https://meta.discourse.org/t/straightforward-direct-delivery-incoming-mail/49487):
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> Discourse is all about enabling civilized discussion. While plenty of people like a web interface, e-mail is still the “hub” of many people’s online lives. That’s why sending e-mail is so important, and when you’re sending e-mail, you really want to be able to receive it, too. There are several reasons why: If e-mails “bounce” (they can’t be delivered for some reason), you need to know about that. Repeatedly sending e-mails that bounce will get your e-mails flagged as spam. Receiving e-ma…

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