Possible to have some emails not run through a service?

[rudzeldok]

Hello,

I am using google workspace as my family mail system.
I have several problems with this solution and want to change it.

main problems: with 6 users we are 1 above the free tier and would have to pay big time if we added the two accounts we want to add.
secondly I want to leave google.

so I am looking for alternatives, with mailbox.org, proton being my favourites.
Yes, they are expensive as well, but since they are not google, I am in favour of paying this.

one problem I have is that I would like to have one or some mailaddresses not running through this service (and not wanting to pay for it). Instead I would like to maybe use the mail service of my provider or just a redirection to another mailaddress. But as I understand that is not possible? Nowhere?

proton seems so nice, but their family account stops with 6 users as well, so I am stuck in this regard.

does anyone know a possibility to have my own domain running through a nice mail service lige gmail, proton etc., but having the freedom and possibility to router some addresses elsewere?

[TenFour]

With Gomailify you can have as many addresses as you want at your domain and you can add any Gmail addresses as "mailboxes" for only $6.95 per year. With Purelymail you get as many mailboxes as you want for $10 per year, but if you use above a certain amount of resources the price will go up.

[hadaso]

Originally Posted by rudzeldok

... I would like to have one or some mailaddresses not running through this service (and not wanting to pay for it). Instead I would like to maybe use the mail service of my provider or just a redirection to another mailaddress. But as I understand that is not possible? Nowhere?

This depends on what you mean by "mailaddresses".
If you have mail1@example.com, mail2@example.com and mail3@example.com, then email to all of them must be received at the same place (that the MX record for the domain example.com points to).
So all you can do if you want the email sent to mail2 and mail3 be sent elsewhere is to setup forwarding.
But if you want to have mail to mail1@sub.example.com and mail2@sub.example.com sent to another place, then you can set a separate MX record for the domain sub.example.com.
So in the first scenario you need an email provider that would do the forwarding. In the second scenario you need a DNS provider that allows you to setup MX records for subdomains of your domain.
In Fastmail I would handle the first scenario by setting the addresses as aliases that target an external provider, and the second scenario by setting a separate MX record pointing to the mail servers of a separate mail provider (since Fastmail also hosts DNS for me).

[n5bb]

Have you considered Fastmail (fastmail.com)?

Bill

[JeremyNicoll]

Originally Posted by n5bb

Fastmail (fastmail.oom)?

Oom? Is that a typo for "com"?

[n5bb]

Thanks - I just corrected my typo.