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Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by brokegrammer »

xyst wrote: post #28

I personally prefer to setup my own mail server. No troubles with receiving or sending, thus far (2 years) But this is a pretty good option for non-technical folks.

I have my own server for a few mailboxes as well but the spam detection isn't great. I still receive emails from Ukrainian billionaires who want to wire me all their money for safekeeping.

I use rspamd, which is supposed to be great. How are you dealing with spam?

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by 77pt77 »

drunner wrote: post #17

Customer for a few years now. I don't do anything fancy with it. It was the cheapest and most appealing option for a custom domain for personal email. I think it runs me ~$11 a year or something I combine it with simplelogin to handle all my aliasing needs. Thanks for the great service.

How is deliverability?

Because for $11/year you can get a simple kvm machine and run your own servers.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by Groxx »

nomilk wrote: post #27

How difficult is exporting from one provider into another (e.g. from gmail into proton or purely)? I guess normies like me are a bit hesitant due to the risk of messing it up (would be a disaster to lose years of emails, as some are important for record-keeping). Curious to hear from people who've done(/attempted) it and how it went? Was it hard? Were there risks? Any regrets?

I can't speak for Purely, but every one I've tried has had an "import from [previous provider]" feature because that's basically just "pull from imap".

Otherwise: for ~20 years now I've been able to just attach two imap accounts in thunderbird, and drag to move/copy everything from one to the other, and that'll just chug away until it's done. I've never had an issue doing that.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

> No arbitrary limits. Have as many users and store as much mail as you want.

There is absolutely a limit. If you don't think you have a limit, it's because you don't have your asshole building his too-clever, "mountable PurelyMailFS" project or whatever yet. So you have a limit, but you aren't telling us what it is, or you don't know what it is. And an unknown arbitrary limit is worse than an arbitrary limit.

EDIT: I WAS WRONG. They bill by storage size & queries if you use "significantly more than $10 in resources" -- which is still vague and arbitrary but probably not a lot of users in the murky grey area.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by nine_k »

KetoManx64 wrote: post #11
teamx wrote: post #6

Whats the reason for using this over free options like gmail?

Your emails aren't being anaylyzed to create a profile about for being used for targeted ads.

I care relatively little because I cut ads using browser plugins and suchlike.

Allowing anything shady, let alone incriminating in your email would be insane, whether it's a mailbox at Google or at Proton. Transactional emails from shady websites, like password reset, are best done with email services like mailinator, which offer zero access protection and destroy the received email in a few minutes automatically.

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