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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by nanis »

Felz wrote: post #278
nanis wrote: post #191

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When signing up for a trial, the page says: > To activate a trial account, you will need a reasonably modern browser and a phone number that can receive SMS texts. It makes no mention of the use of a "hashwall" ... It gives no indication of what the user's browser is going to do ... Just a progress meter with a note saying it will take about 3 minutes. This feels fishy. Especially if a user doesn't know how to get in…

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 whatever reason. I'll make a note on the UI elements. Honestly hadn't thought about the punycode usecase, good catch.

> For the trial hashwall, the browser just does some heavy computations.

Yeah, I figured that out, but someone else might think you are trying mine some *coin or something. I am not sure if I would mind it if you did, but it would be good to tell up front what you are doing. It does seem to be a much better than recaptcha.

The fact that it works is good enough for me. I am going fiddle a little more before I sign up, but it looks like this is fills my needs.

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Post by Jakob1337 »

I like the idea but you should consider offering something more than just the Roundcube. If I pay for an email service I expect a better webmail and Android/iOS apps. MXroute offers all of this and I don't see a reason why I should migrate. Best of luck anyway!

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Post by nezgar »

donmcronald wrote: post #118
throwaway81523 wrote: post #50

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I've also been happy with mxroute.com which has super low cost promos every November (black friday) so I'm on a $15/year plan. Regular pricing starts at $45/year for unlimited domains and mailboxes, 10GB storage.

MXroute is super awesome for device based email. If you have firewalls, copiers, system notifications, backup alerts, etc. it’s a great fit. The killer features are unlimited mailboxes and per-mailbox quotas. I make a new mailbox for every device and give them a quota that makes sense; 10 messages per day for most. If a device goes haywire, gets compromised, or gets stolen, it’s one mailbox to fix and maxes out at a…

You can setup a receive connector on exchange online to trust mail from specified souce IP(s) (ie your onprem mailserver) with no need for additional mailbox licenses... good for alerting/reporting/MFP's etc

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Post by neop1x »

oarsinsync wrote: post #265
berkes wrote: post #259

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My emailserver runs at linode. It delivered fine for some 10 years, then I started getting blackholed (at Microsoft live, hotmail, 365, outlook). This IP does only mail. Server is secure, up to date and has all the DKIM/SPF nonsense. It's impossible to reach humans that can help. It's impossible to unlist. So I'm now on my third IP, my last one running mail for 4+ years, from Digital Ocean. Only now, occasionally, do…

I share your confidence that lots of providers blanket drop mail from IP ranges owned by cheap VPS providers. The cost of swtiching IPs within those providers is low, so spammers have already abused that, and made life worse for the rest of us as a result.

Yes, I had a first-hand experience with this. Cheap VPS was blackholed right away at Yahoo and any attempt to unblock it was not successful. It makes sense though.

Then I set up my own bare metal server and put it into a real datacenter serverhousing. I had couple of problems at the beginning and later once a few years later - problems sending to microsoft - but all those were resolved rather quickly via their forms. And I haven't had any deliverability problems since then.

The serverhousing I used is very strict regarding spam reports. I once tried to use the server also for sending newsletters (no spam lists, just emails which explicitly subscribed). Someone reported it as spam once and serverhousing contacted me soon after that they don't tolerate any spam. I explained that it was not spam and that there was unsubscribe link but I decided to not use it for any kind of marketing again. I think specialized services are better for this.

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Felz wrote: 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.

Is it a one person show, or are there people, team, cofounders, and a company behind it?

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Post by crossroadsguy »

brongondwana wrote: post #148
zephyr9 wrote: post #106

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Oh sorry I did not mean to suggest Fastmail was a faceless megacorp, I was thinking of Google, MS, Apple, etc. I fondly recall many years ago I had some WebDAV issue and got a reply directly from you saying you'd fixed the issue but you were just heading out to dinner and so you'd push to production when you got back. That convinced a few friends to join too. After about 10 years, Fastmail felt it was shifting to a m…

Hah, yeah - fair enough. Glad I could fix your issue. Ahh, Webdav. I know the XML libraries a lot better these days and could make that code a lot tighter, but it's still chugging along just fine, pretty much untouched since :) As for enterprise focus - not so much enterprise, but we are focusing more on the non-technical user. All the power is still there under the hood and available, but it's not so much in your fa…

Hi, is there going to be a plan like the lowest tier of mailbox.org (esp. the price)? People who just need email with 1-2GB and probably a catch all?

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Post by x0x0 »

jari_mustonen wrote: post #224
wolrah wrote: post #216

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> Also, most of the issues will not be with obscure email servers, they will be with Outlook and Gmail. When you send email, you will never know if your email will be delivered to inbox, delivered to spam folder, or blackholed entirely. In my personal experience, over five years of running my own business and personal email entirely and another decade and counting since of running PBXes that directly send voicemail m…

Hi Wolrah I'm starting a new company where email connection to my user base is essential. From time to time I also need to sen all users certain notifications which looks kinda like marketing email but isn't. Could you contact me as I would like to ask your opinion on the configuration that I'm trying to set up. I would also like to discuss your experiences. If isn't too much, you can reach me by email at jari@itsell…

I'm not sure if you know about this, but in case not --

sendgrid is dirt cheap for transactional emails. And there's tons of offerings for marketing emails; I'm partial either to sendinblue or ses depending on your use case.

There really isn't much reason to roll your own, particularly with ses.

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