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Felz

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About Felz

Working on Purelymail, a cheap no-nonsense web host.

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    Comment #29048633

    You're not adjusting for inflation, which they are. Still, I have no idea where they're getting their numbers, which seem comically wrong. > Accounting for inflation, house prices …

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    Comment #28390781

    It sounds like a more realistic motivation for that would be to reduce the risk of failure- if the primary team flubbed the project, the secondary team would still be an option. (S…

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    Comment #27720848

    Just me- check the about page. (It is registered as a company too.)

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    Comment #27716032

    They are still useful. One of DKIM or SPF is required to send emails on a custom domain. Both are recommended.

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    Comment #27716015

    https://purelymail.com/docs/companyPolicy#bus Also, I generally don't stop the service for maintenance, unless I need to upgrade the database engine.

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    Comment #27715983

    Yea, this to an extent. Honestly I thought people wouldn't need more than $50 too, maybe I was wrong there.

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    Comment #27715962

    Rate limits, feedback loops, and we scan outgoing mail through SpamAssassin. In practice we've only had password breaches causing spam, nothing intentional.

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    Comment #27715953

    Long run it'd probably get deprecated, short to medium run it'd be fine: https://purelymail.com/docs/companyPolicy#bus

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    Comment #27715940

    > 1. I don't know if it's the social media kiss of death at work, but I'm getting lots of SSL errors trying to load your site. It's a crap-shoot whether it works or not right now. …

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    Comment #27715884

    Hm, no idea what would've gone wrong in your case. It sounds like something kept closing the websocket used to provide page interactivity or something?

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    Comment #27715867

    For the trial hashwall, the browser just does some heavy computations. I guess I should add a warning there, it's probably does have battery impact if you're using a phone for what…

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    Comment #27709325

    That's partly intentional! Hopefully it scares away the users who expect perfection, and they can be better handled by a glossier service. (Also I'm just genuinely mediocre at desi…

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    Comment #27709284

    The E2E will help so long as you're sending email to other users of the same service, yeah. For most cases, it's probably not a huge upgrade from stored encrypted; the bulk of dama…

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    Comment #27709212

    No, but I will. Thanks for giving me a term to research!

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    Comment #27709172

    Marketing emails are actually against the terms of service, although there are grey areas- like a user personally reaches out to offer people a service, and some occasionally end u…

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    Comment #27708913

    Yea, they say as much in the data privacy FAQ. I think my recommendation is that if you're worried about being explicitly targeted by state actors, don't use email. (Not even Proto…

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    Comment #27708867

    You can have as many domains/users as you want. (Unless it's like five billion and breaks the service or something.) Generally phone access is third party through IMAP. On Android …

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    Comment #27708759

    Yea, I do plan on adding in JMAP. It's so much nicer than IMAP, I really do hope it can overcome the adoption hump.

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    Comment #27708734

    Cool! I'll make a note of it on my task list (I think I still have the old task on there too, which is nothing against SaaShub, I was preoccupied).

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    Comment #27708725

    Depends on what you mean. Inbound email is checked for authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc) as part of the spam filter. For outbound email, we ask you to set up at least one of S…

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    Comment #27708719

    Sum total of my marketing efforts: One time I mentioned it in HN comments on a post about Fastmail, mostly because I was going to make a comment about owning your own email domain …

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    Comment #27708566

    Yes, we have catchalls. We don't restrict how you route anything under your domain, and you can send from any email address you own.

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    Comment #27708552

    We do have CardDAV support, and hope to develop CalDAV soon :)

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    Comment #27708546

    In general yes I do contribute to open source, although there's not too much to contribute back to open source _yet_, so the main contribution has just filing Roundcube bugs. (The …