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Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by prashnts »

jonathonf wrote: post #19

While looking through I noticed this from the latest changelog post: > Until the end of November, you can use the discount code NOVEMBERRAIN to get 50% off any Migadu plan, permanently. Offer is valid only for new upgrades. $2 per month is pretty good, or it makes the 'standard' plan roughly the same as non-discounted 'mini'. Not entirely sure yet where you enter this code so I sent them a question. --edit Very quick…

I couldn't figure how to apply the coupon though. It says that the coupon has been applied, but I am charged 48 usd for the Mini/Yearly plan.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by lxst »

prashnts wrote: post #21
alecsmart1 wrote: post #12

Looks great. Do you have any screenshots for the webmail? I couldn't find any on the site.

I signed up today. It's pretty slick. http://imgur.com/a/Xt4CQ

Looks like they are using Rainloop (https://www.rainloop.net/) with a customized skin.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by criddell »

samat wrote: post #16
samat wrote: post #13

As far as I see you don't support Apple's native email push notifications, which is the exact reason I switched from Gmail to FastMail. Are you planning to implement that feature?

A great service, netherless. There should be more independent email providers out there, not just google, ms,yahoo,apple and behemoths alike.

I agree 100%. I just wish I could take the gmail interface and use it to manage my mail on my server. It's the UI that keeps me on Google for email.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by 2ion »

Interestingly, they use the Nodejs-based Haraka MTA instead of a more conservative choice like Postfix or Exim. I wonder what exact advantages they traded in more mature and certainly not much less performant software in for?

A very good and even cheaper alternative to this service I can recommend is mailbox.org, run by German IT service specialist Heinlein. They deliver a full OpenXchange setup (mail, calendar, contacts) with custom domain, 3 different mail aliases and additional + aliases and good privacy policy for 1€/month. They are very realiable (using a more conservative MTA, postfix), and the company is mature. They provide better value for money than migadu.com just by looking at it.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by samat »

2ion wrote: post #26

Interestingly, they use the Nodejs-based Haraka MTA instead of a more conservative choice like Postfix or Exim. I wonder what exact advantages they traded in more mature and certainly not much less performant software in for? A very good and even cheaper alternative to this service I can recommend is mailbox.org, run by German IT service specialist Heinlein. They deliver a full OpenXchange setup (mail, calendar, cont…

If I recall correctly, they have some laughable storage limits like 250 megabytes. Not a big fan of storing all my email locally and doing backups myself + no mobile search. So 1990ish, in my opinion.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by gkya »

This is how I do email:

- Use my domain providers 1GB mailbox.

- IMAP on the phone, POP3 on the PC.

- I'm currently not subscribed to any high-volume mailing lists, and won't unless I'm a very active contributor. The only lists I follow is the announce lists from GNU, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. You don't need to subscribe in order to post to many email lists.

- Pop my mail into my computer, use procmail to check for spam & virus (spamassassin, clamav), sort likely spam into spam mailbox, non-spam into inbox, rest to /dev/null (spamassassin score>5 and/or clamav virus check positive). If I'm on any moderate-or-high-volume lists, sort them into different mailboxes (most the content there is not sent to me, so no need to have them in front of me every time I look at my inbox).

- My inbox receives many updates from services and newsletters I'm subscribed to. I delete most mail from those if I won't have to return to them (e.g. a message about an event next week, I add the event to my agenda if I'm participating, and delete the mail; copy the relevant text to my agenda if necessary).

- Report to spamassassin and delete any message that escaped it and made it to my inbox.

- Check spam every-so-often, report ham and move to inbox, delete the rest.

- Use a combination of mpop, msmtp, procmail, spamassassin, clamav, Rmail, Org-Mode and mairix to get all this going (K9 mail on Android for IMAP there). Sounds complex, but isn't, nowadays I've tuned my setup to be pleasing. The only thing I'd like to do in future is to do POP, SMTP, sorting and search in Emacs instead of through all those programs.

One shortcoming of my setup is that once I pop my mail, I can't view it on mobile anymore. That's something I can fix (maybe there's an app for Android that can read local mail in the SD card), but I haven't had a problem up until now. And no, I'm not a unix-vintage-guy or whatnot, this setup is practical and pleasing to use (at least in my case), and I own all my mail the moment I pop it from my server, and nobody has a copy of it. If it's not on your disks, you don't own it.

Re: Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month

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Post by maccard »

gkya wrote: post #29

This is how I do email: - Use my domain providers 1GB mailbox. - IMAP on the phone, POP3 on the PC. - I'm currently not subscribed to any high-volume mailing lists, and won't unless I'm a very active contributor. The only lists I follow is the announce lists from GNU, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. You don't need to subscribe in order to post to many email lists. - Pop my mail into my computer, use procmail to check for spam &…

This is why I don't host my own email. I pay a provider that I trust to do all of this for me.
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