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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by donmcronald »

faraaz98 wrote: post #22
listenallyall wrote: post #14

Thank you for making this service available. For entrepreneurs who like to launch new ideas with custom domains, pricing models like the one here is a HUGE savings over pay-per-account (or domain) pricing found at most major email providers. Further, it's not easy making much money charging just $10/year, even if the business gets quite popular... so again, thanks for making it available.

I'm curious, what are your thoughts on Zoho mail. You can use your custom domains even in their free tier

It’s only 1 domain I think and they stripped out things like ActiveSync and IMAP a couple years ago IIRC. I use the $1/user/month plan and it’s decent. I don’t use calendars or contacts, so I’m not sure how that stacks up, but the email stuff is good.

The biggest annoyance is that someone used mx, mx2, mx3 for their MX instead of mx1, mx2, mx3, so the dns record indentation doesn’t line up. Lmao.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by donmcronald »

jakecopp wrote: post #17
zephyr9 wrote: post #3

I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience. It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)

> It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk, especially considering data is encrypted at rest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

I think my odds of getting banned by Google’s shitty AI is just as much of a risk for me as the bus-factor for a one person show.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by dddw »

fastball wrote: post #101
zephyr9 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind separating your mail from your CalDAV there is https://fruux.com (I use a paper diary, YMMV.)

€4/u/m is pretty steep. I'm currently using fastmail which is $3-5/u/m for mail/cal/card.

It is free if you only use it on 2 devices

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by lawl »

jakecopp wrote: post #17
zephyr9 wrote: post #3

I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience. It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)

> It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk, especially considering data is encrypted at rest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

> Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk

Not such a big deal if you have your own domain (you should). Update the MX record and point it elsewhere.

I've switched from Gmail to a similar setup a year ago. Honestly, it's been way easier than I expected, in terms of updating everywhere. And I can just point my MX somewhere else should I ever be unhappy with the current provider.

No delivery issues either so far. Seriously, the hardest part about this whole ordeal was getting imapsync to run, to transfer my mails over.

Not using gmail or another big silo is really not that hard, as HN often makes it out to be.

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Post by shaicoleman »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #111

> An honest list of drawbacks I appreciate putting up a list like this. That said, I want to comment on one of the listed drawbacks: > Occasionally, obscure email servers will block emails sent through us I have a few years of experience running my own email server and I can tell you this is a major pain in the ass. When you send your email via a small email server (a server that sends a low volume of email), you wil…

> Occasionally, obscure email servers will block emails sent through us

The worst offender is Microsoft and their email services (hotmail.com/live.com/outlook.com/etc.).

They reject all emails from my server, because it's on DigitalOcean. They are ignoring all requests to unblock my IP address.

They don't mark it as spam, they just outright block emails, so you can't even workaround it by checking the spam folder.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by chaz6 »

Felz wrote: post #54
chaz6 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

1. Basically what nine_k said. It's kind of a trivial point most of the time- honestly might be a bit overpriced right now. 2. Not at the moment- IPV6 support is a little dicier for mailservers because the scarcer IPV4 address is often used as a antispam signal.

But if I am using my own domain, what difference does it make if it is more "valuable"?

Sadly the lack of IPv6 is a deal breaker for me.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by mfashby »

jakecopp wrote: post #17
zephyr9 wrote: post #3

I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience. It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)

> It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people Email is super critical for most people these days (eg. 2FA). That sounds like a really scary bus-factor [1] risk, especially considering data is encrypted at rest. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

I _always_ use that particular phrase for highlighting the importance of information sharing, but I never knew this page existed, thanks!

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Post by spindle »

jobarion wrote: post #114

When using subaddressing (e.g. example+tag@purelymail.com), can I also send from that address? The holy grail for me would be an email service that lets me set up catch-all, with the ability to send/reply with any address I want.

I'm not the right person to answer but I happen to know that the answer is yes!

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by spindle »

zubspace wrote: post #91

Looks good. Fair pricing. I hope it works out for them. I started out with self-hosting mail-in-a-box [1]. If you really want to self-host, I can highly recommend it. Would be the cheapest option. At some point I decided to let go of it, because maintenance and configuration can still be a bit cumbersome. There was one thing (DMARC or DNSSEC?) which I never was able to set up properly for some unknown reason, even af…

+1 for gandi as a mail host.
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