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Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by jonathanberger »

I love Hey (https://hey.com) for its "screener" feature. It supports custom domains but not Gmail migration.

The screener keeps new senders out of your inbox. A rich set of keyboard shortcuts helps triage new senders into one of a few categories including simply blocking them. You can choose to block at the address or the domain level.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by olavgg »

I would like to add Microsoft Office 365, most of you would like access to the Office applications. If not, that is fine as you can still pay less. You also get Azure Active Directory included for free, which you can use for single sign on applications you have(up to 10 applications).

I am founder for a new startup and we decided to go for Office 365 as our email service because it just made most sense for our business. And those who knows me, know that I prefer to avoid Microsoft solutions most of the time.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by thefounder »

tsujamin wrote: post #12

iCloud Mail with Custom Domains if you’re on iOS et al. Alternatively I had a one seat Exchange Online license for a few years that went pretty well reputation and anti spam wise

Why would you build a single point of failure? Not to mention feeding the monster even more.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by 1letterunixname »

Your own, hosted on a VPS in a non-US extradition country maintained by locals. Otherwise, you have no expectation of privacy or of durability, a-la Lavabit because a corporation in the reach of the US Gov can be squished and bullied whenever. That single company that runs an email service will always a SPoF. At least if you run your own on multiple machines on multiple providers and use a reputable domain registrar that can't be pushed around, you have HA.

Re: Ask HN: What email service should I use instead of Gmail?

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Post by alxlu »

jonathanberger wrote: post #11

I love Hey ( https://hey.com ) for its "screener" feature. It supports custom domains but not Gmail migration. The screener keeps new senders out of your inbox. A rich set of keyboard shortcuts helps triage new senders into one of a few categories including simply blocking them. You can choose to block at the address or the domain level.

I used it for a year and liked the concept well enough at first. But the filtering by email addresses makes it difficult when many companies use the same email address to send both transactional and promotional emails.

And the lack of SMTP makes migrating off their service slightly less clean as well.

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