This comes at the perfect time for me since I plan to move the mess of 4 domains with about 12 email mailboxes for projects, private and my family to a single more reliable service. Right now its on some Google Apps free tier from back when it was free and a cheapskate VPS hoster with terrible spam reputation and customer support.
Just signed up for the mini plan and if it does in fact give me about 15 somewhat reliable email mailboxes for just 48$ a year I'll be a happy customer. With the 50% off it's a steal compared to other services, especially with my number of mailboxes.
Zoho definitely seems to offer more but at a way higher price because I'm billed by mailboxes/users it seems. Thing is all my 12 mailboxes together over 4 domains send maybe 150 mails a month overall. So low traffic, but multiple domains and mailboxes used by two or three people - simply to keep email from different places and for different purposes across 10 devices automatically sorted by mailbox. It's why I've been using a small VPS in the past but running my own mailserver is a pain to keep up to date, secure and spam free.
And Zoho has too many features I wouldn't use, I really just need a few (hopefully) reliable and (somewhat) secure IMAP capable inboxes which can be accessed by 10 different stationary and mobile devices.
With a single domain, or a single mailbox Zoho is a great alternative. If you run multiple domains though, why not spare yourself the trouble and complexity?
Just signed up for the mini plan and if it does in fact give me about 15 somewhat reliable email mailboxes for just 48$ a year I'll be a happy customer. With the 50% off it's a steal compared to other services, especially with my number of mailboxes.