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Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by Numerlor »

xigoi wrote: post #155
WrongOnInternet wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their comparison of themselves to Proton is rather deceptive. If you're willing have only 1GB of storage, instead of 3GB, you can get proton for free. And at the price they list ($48/yr), you'd get 15GB storage, plus a lot more. And no, I was not paid by proton to say this. I only have the free plan.

Proton does not allow you to use standard protocols (IMAP/SMTP), which is a deal-breaker for me.

They have a bridge app for normal protocols, though I have had problems with it losing content IDs on attachments

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by npteljes »

ffsm8 wrote: post #120
crossroadsguy wrote: post #116

Like every last time it was posted. It’s not suitable for anything other than your hobby email domain. If you use your email with your bank, and other critical services I’d seriously not go with a one-person show. > Also, we're in beta https://purelymail.com/about > We're a small company. So small, the "we" is royal. I wish Scott best of luck and I hope one day it reaches there but until it is anything but confidence…

Whenever I come across landing pages I always wonder, how many people are the "we" and "team" really. It feels disingenuous to use these terms under such circumstances, but he's definitely not a minority doing so. It's kinda the norm, wherever we (｡ ◕ ‿ ◕ ｡) like it or not

I did web dev for many one-off projects, and very often this is the case - that the people are non-existent. When having an altercation with a customer, one of my guys even fired the non-existing support person, and then another non-existing support person took over, apologized, and made amends with the client.

So yeah, at least this guys is somewhat transparent. And with services like my primary email address, I only trust longstanding, reliable services, nothing fresh, nothing beta, nothing with the bus factor of 1. But with the custom domain, at least migration is not super hard maybe? Just hope that it doesn't happen during a 2-week vacation or something.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by noja »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #148
the_jeremy wrote: post #24

I also use this. Pros: super cheap. Cons: UI is bad, so you'll want to access through a client. 1 person shop. Not audited AFAIK.

posteo has been great for me and also allows you to define aliases, thou each alias costs 10c per month. If you stay below 10 aliases, it is <2€ per month as well.

Doesn’t support custom domains

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by LaSombra »

csomar wrote: post #87

This has roughly the same pricing as Fastmail just that it offers much smaller plans. If you are really that tight about money, have your domain DNS on cloudflare and redirect mail to gmail and send from a Cloudflare worker. A bit of a hassle but completely free. Fastmail is worth it though as it has a really good web client and can do other nice things (Calendar, rules, notes, store random files, etc..)

Have Fastmail moved their servers outside the US?

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by selcuka »

anshargal wrote: post #43
77pt77 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

RackNerd offers one for $10.99 a year [1]. I've used them before and they are a solid provider. Besides you can use the same server and same IPv4 address for hosting multiple email domains.

[1] https://vncoupon.com/black-friday-racknerd-huge-savings-spec...

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by LorenDB »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #116

Like every last time it was posted. It’s not suitable for anything other than your hobby email domain. If you use your email with your bank, and other critical services I’d seriously not go with a one-person show. > Also, we're in beta https://purelymail.com/about > We're a small company. So small, the "we" is royal. I wish Scott best of luck and I hope one day it reaches there but until it is anything but confidence…

> If you use your email with your bank, and other critical services I’d seriously not go with a one-person show.

OTOH using your own domain means you can easily migrate to a new email server in the event that Purelymail folds.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by riezebos »

the_jeremy wrote: post #24

I also use this. Pros: super cheap. Cons: UI is bad, so you'll want to access through a client. 1 person shop. Not audited AFAIK.

As far as I can tell Fastmail comes pretty close, I have as many email addresses as I want on multiple domains and a bunch of routing rules for €4/mo.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by drunner »

xigoi wrote: post #153
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.

What do you need SimpleLogin for? Purelymail supports aliases on its own.

I still prefer to shield my domain and inboxes. Probably a silly exercise, but I like knowing that no one can spam my true inbox or domain as its never given out.

Re: Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by technothrasher »

wiml wrote: post #145
em-bee wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope, exactly this feature you describe is what i am referring to. it's not a gmail invention. not by a long shot.

I think it originated with CMU's email system (the use of the "+" sign specifically).

You're right. Originally the + sign in an email address was an indicator to the Andrew Message System's delivery agent to process the email in an extensible way. The syntax was ++. As an example. you could use "user+dir-insert+misc" to route the message to the "misc" directory in the user's mailbox structure. An unknown keyword would just get ignored and the mail delivered as usual, giving the behavior as used today.
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