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Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by BeetleB »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #37

> 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 get where your mentality is coming from, but I've been with my current mark provider who has "no limits" for twenty years without problems.

I've been with my unlimited backup provider for over a decade without any problems. They keep increasing their available fee but that's ok for how much I'm backing up (several terabytes).

It pays in life not to be too cynical.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by simple10 »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #37

> 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 found the limits are on the pricing and advanced pricing pages. It seems pretty straightforward. You get $10/year of resources. If you use a lot more than that, then you'll get upgraded to advanced pricing.

https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by anshargal »

77pt77 wrote: post #33
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.

there are not a lot of options to get a virtual server under $1 per month, especially with IPv4 address

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by Open-Sourcery »

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?

From one domain to another (gmail.com to custom), a bit of faffing about to get all the accounts moves over.

Moving the mails was as simple as ctrl+a and dragging my mouse in thunderbird.

Between providers with a custom domain (zoho to mxroute) was easy. Just updating the DNS records and moving the emails.

If you are technically able (really just buying a domain and setting the DNS records the provider tells you) I would recommend getting a custom domain. It gives you the ability to move providers at will pretty easily, even if you did want to stick with a gmail for now.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by jimmydoe »

77pt77 wrote: post #33
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.

your time worth a lot more.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by qingcharles »

mometsi wrote: post #4

Seems like a reasonable alternative to Proton for multiple domains: email that costs money instead of being haunted by AI. That logo is creepy though, and implies exactly the opposite.

Fastmail seems to let me have unlimited domains for like $5/mo

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

simple10 wrote: post #42
CobrastanJorji wrote: post #37

> 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 found the limits are on the pricing and advanced pricing pages. It seems pretty straightforward. You get $10/year of resources. If you use a lot more than that, then you'll get upgraded to advanced pricing. https://purelymail.com/advancedpricing

Oh! I read that much more pessimistically. This is great!

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by dang »

thelastgallon wrote: post #36

Discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857 (2021)

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Purelymail: Cheap, No-Nonsense Email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058691 - Oct 2022 (4 comments)

Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857 - July 2021 (307 comments)

Purelymail: Cheap email with custom domains, 2FA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23567456 - June 2020 (1 comment)

Show HN: Purelymail (Beta) – extremely cheap custom domain email - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19134881 - Feb 2019 (1 comment)

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