Le dimanche 27 septembre 2020 à 16:30 +0200, Olivier Cailloux a écrit :
Dear list,
I am looking for providers of free e-mail addresses known to run Dovecot (or a variant thereof) for IMAP access. I need only a few MB storage space and no particular features beyond SMTP and IMAP.
The reason I ask is that Dovecot is known to implement the IMAP spec quite respectfully, and I am writing a software which uses IMAP search (so I would suggest my users to register an e-mail to a provider implementing correctly the IMAP Search specifications, to reduce the probability of bugs). (More details here: https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1821627 .)
These private offers are very kind, but my question was more about finding a provider who offers this access as a normal service, not as some special favor to me. That’s because I want to recommend this provider to the users of a software I am developing. And I do not expect my users will agree to pay some fee (even a low fee) to
register
There is no such thing as free. If you do not pay anything, you know you are the product.
for an e-mail address just to use my software, so I’d recommend only a provider who gives starter plans for free. (Of course these users in turn would perhaps then upgrade their plan if they want to.)
I don't think providers would be very willing (understatement) to install your software on their platform that services their other clients. I assume this is server side, since you enquire about dovecot.
So far I didn’t find a service provider providing free e-mail accounts (similar to GMail, Yahoo, …) and using Dovecot, which I find very surprising, as I thought some of these big names, or at least some smaller ones that I do not know, would use Dovecot.
T-mobile uses dovecot, find t-mobile users ;)