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Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.com? first@last.com? me@firstlast.com? Do you typically use multiple accounts?
> A full load with an empty cache takes about 20 seconds on my desktop Looking at the typical Amazon concern that "longer load times cost millions in sales" that you hear, it's crazy to think that gmail doesn't measure the uncached load time (or they do and are happy with 20 seconds). Anecdata: I mostly use my phone for email, so most of the time I load the gmail web interface the cache is cold and it takes this long…
That said, I've found Gmail to be pretty sluggish even after loading, so I use it via email clients with my other accounts.
Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.com? first@last.com? me@firstlast.com? Do you typically use multiple accounts?
Use a time machine and get first@last.com
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Hey! I feel like ensuring you clarify you'll only shut down an account if they break the rules you set out is a really good practice and there are examples, like FastMail's, you could borrow from. I know the standard boilerplate is to give a service the right to do whatever it wants, but as a small indie service operator you can be better than the fairly standard! ;) Your service running itself is a good idea for avo…
No offense taken! I think you're broadly right that I could be doing a better job on reassuring messaging, and I'll put that on my work queue. I also hope to solve any bus factor problems before leaving beta. Right now if I were struck down, I think I'd still have about 9 months worth of free AWS credits on the account running the service, plus any profits. (It's not quite a self sustaining business yet, but it's not…
Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.com? first@last.com? me@firstlast.com? Do you typically use multiple accounts?
firstname@firstname[first character of my last name].com
Although... I do have firstname@sdan.io but unsure how "professional" that is, so I use it for other newsletters/subscriptions
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The post is about “owning” your email address so you can move, not moving to a new provider.
As the recent changes to .org show, though, after a while the domain owns you rather than the other way around! I am trying to move away from gsuite. The thing with forwarding from there is that it goes through spam there first, meaning you really have to check it (my accountant screwed up their spf records recently, leading to a lot of confusion). Using the account directly sucks, you have constant switching and gsu…
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In my experience (G Suite Basic) it doesn't do any MX record checks, I still have a domain "active" that had its MX records removed (expired domain) almost 2 years ago.
Niiiccceee. That does make me a bit more confident about it.
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> Copyright © 2016 AdVite GmbH This sounds like an advertising company. A person's inbox is the holy grail of info about them. I don't think I want to use this company for my email. Change my mind?
The company is based in Switzerland and is French speaking. Any chance "AdVite" means something different in French? Apart from that, their website states pretty clearly their privacy policy [1] and other terms [2]. It doesn't look like there is anything shady going on here. I don't personally use Migadu but I've had it bookmarked as the "service I would probably use if/when the day comes". [1]: https://www.migadu.co…
I switched from Gmail to Fastmail back in 2013 [1] and haven't looked back. Fastmail has continued to make significant improvements, while keeping the interface lean and functional. It seems to me like $3/month is worth it for a service as critical as email. [1]: https://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/ and discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6069944