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Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.

I just want to thanks for the service, I just need email for my personal stuffs and after hassles with self-hosted solution I gave up. The pricing is on point, I'm relying on the free Protonmail and their asking price is too high to me so I signed up for purelymail.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#82
post #30

Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.

Hey Scott - tell me how you got the word out about Purelymail?

Obviously you reached the right audience and they liked what they saw to post it here and generate so much interest. Consider me another subscriber!

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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post #62
post #30

Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.

I'm sorry if I missed it, but do you do catchall email service for custom domains? My current email provider ( https://mailbox.org ) limits email aliases per price plan, the most basic that I currently use allows for 3 + a free root@ and webmaster@. I'd probably be convinced to go through the hassle and switch providers if your service provides an improvement over this limit.

You can use x3 domains with catch-all. Just add each one as "@domain.tld" and setup mx/spf/dkim/dmarc as usual. Then the domain will receive with catch-all. However, prepare to be spammed, as many spammers figure that "mail@domain.tld" are always available, so that one will frequently receive spams.

If you need more than three domains, try Migadu(not affiliated, just happy customer), they have no formal limits to their "micro" plan and is cheaper than FastMail. Migadu also allows adding alias domains(something I haven't seen anywhere), basically if you have a mailbox like "merlinscholz@domain.tld" you can attach some more domains as alias, like "@domain2.tld" "@domainx.tld" and those will all receive/send/operate as the same "merlinscholz@domain.tld". Neat feature I haven't found yet on other services.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#84
post #74
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry if I missed it, but do you do catchall email service for custom domains? My current email provider ( https://mailbox.org ) limits email aliases per price plan, the most basic that I currently use allows for 3 + a free root@ and webmaster@. I'd probably be convinced to go through the hassle and switch providers if your service provides an improvement over this limit.

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.

Thats good to know. Apparently my current provider allows for those as well, but honestly the proposal "just email, nothing else" might be attractive enough to try your service anyways.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#85

I'm not sure price is the parameter to compete on for email services, at least for me. Email is extremely important to most businesses, and if I'm already paying for a domain, and running a business, even the $70 for a Workspace solution is a drop in the bucket. What I need, however, is deliverability, strong privacy and security, good spam filtering, and support when I need it. I'd encourage you to try doubling or t…

Perhaps you're not the target customer?

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#86
post #33

These tiny services are cool. I have the cheapest account on Migadu[1] for all my random custom domain emails. 1. https://www.migadu.com

Plus one. Great, small Swiss shop with decent support and response time. Never had any issues with them.

Can only second migadu, only think I really miss is a Calendar support.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#87
post #35

I have a question: if this is hosted on AWS, what (and I'm sure there's something, I just don't know what ) is stopping Amazon from accessing my mail and using it for whatever?

I believe this is part of the AWS's explicit policy, possibly also in the terms of service: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/ It would be crazy suicidal for their cloud business to break it, and possibly open them up to lawsuit.

And of course it would be even more crazy for them to refuse a request e.g. by the FBI or NSA. I'm sure they respect SLAs as much as OnePlus, Huawei & co don't share data with Chinese government.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

#89
post #49
post #30

Oh cool, my project is on HackerNews! I was wondering about the sudden uptick in user signups, and then I checked HN... I'm Scott, feel free to ask me anything about the service.

Two questions from me:- Usernames on shared domains: 1 to 6 letters: $1.00 per user per year 7 to 12 letters: $0.25 per user per year 13+ letters: $0.10 per user per year 1. Why does the length of a mailbox name make a difference? 2. Do you support IPv6?

This is the best pricing scheme for email I've ever seen.
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