I don’t need all the stuff they offer.
I ONLY need [email protected]…
Anything out there thats free or self hosted just for this.
Porkbun is pretty decent but actually is 25 USD a year, and so same as a single Google workspace account.
Or self host email with a basic web email gui.
Email is hard to self host, I setup mailcow on a server and delivery has been iffy. For non-production email, pretty good.
Most of the important email on my custom domains are through mxroute.com. Considering Black Friday is coming soon, you can expect a very good offer. I spend 30$ for 3 years to host unlimited mailboxes as long as it is completely under 100GB.
You need to get a domain elsewhere (tld-list.com can help with getting the cheapest price) and setting it up through mxroute is usually a 5-10 minute activity (including DNS setup).