Originally Posted by
Dashers
Or, if you have a NAS or something at home running all the time, host your own.
Pick up a domain for a few quid a year and point the MX records to your DDNS or static IP address, spin up a copy of Postfix and a mail server of your choice, I use Dovecot and there we go. Push email, for free.
What if your Internet goes down for a bit? Doesn't matter. Email was designed around dial-up. Servers retry sending mail for days before notifying the sender that you're currently unavailable.