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The best implementation of this I've seen has to be Ghost, an open source self-hostable newsletter/patreon thing. They detect what email provider you have and when you enter your email, will display a link to open your inbox. It's super neat, and I haven't seen it anywhere else, and I'm also not sure how they do it. For something self-hostable, I'll definitely take one less attack vector.
Doesn't help if you're not using a huge provider such as Gmail or Hotmail
A DNS lookup on a domain says who runs the email server for email users on that domain (that's how email senders figures out how to send you messages), and if that host is a known one then you can just pull the link to show. If you're self hosting email then a few solutions can be recognized and login shown by guessing that the email software's default URL pattern is used.