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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

> An honest list of drawbacks

I appreciate putting up a list like this. That said, I want to comment on one of the listed drawbacks:

> Occasionally, obscure email servers will block emails sent through us

I have a few years of experience running my own email server and I can tell you this is a major pain in the ass. When you send your email via a small email server (a server that sends a low volume of email), you will have constant issues getting mail delivered. 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.

Related:

> We're not a suitable platform for sending marketing emails (although you should use a dedicated marketing platform anyway).

Please explicitly ban people from using your platform to send "marketing email". Clients like that are going to ruin deliverability for your other clients.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by Felz »

estaseuropano wrote: post #87
Felz wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe this is part of the AWS's explicit policy, possibly also in the terms of service: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/ It would be crazy suicidal for their cloud business to break it, and possibly open them up to lawsuit.

And of course it would be even more crazy for them to refuse a request e.g. by the FBI or NSA. I'm sure they respect SLAs as much as OnePlus, Huawei & co don't share data with Chinese government.

Yea, they say as much in the data privacy FAQ. I think my recommendation is that if you're worried about being explicitly targeted by state actors, don't use email. (Not even Protonmail.)

If you're worried about general data hoovering, AWS would probably need to implement very sophisticated introspection into what your machines are doing to break the SSL on SMTPS, and courts might not be sympathetic to that. I expect state actors would find it easier and more convenient to just hoover from big providers like Gmail instead.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by eps »

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.

What provisions are in place to prevent someone from opening an account, use it to spam and then putting your IP block on a shitlist with large email providers like Gmail?

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by mouldysammich »

estaseuropano wrote: post #40
listenallyall wrote: post #14

Thank you for making this service available. For entrepreneurs who like to launch new ideas with custom domains, pricing models like the one here is a HUGE savings over pay-per-account (or domain) pricing found at most major email providers. Further, it's not easy making much money charging just $10/year, even if the business gets quite popular... so again, thanks for making it available.

I'm quite happy with Migadu for own domain use. I have a dozen that are unlikely to receive email but good to be able to receive them nonethelrss - migadu is great for that as you can add as many domains as you want. Calendar feature is sorely missing though it seems this service also doesn't have it. I guess calendar is a pain to set up/troubleshoot timezone issues, etc

I think they have calendar the show how to set it up here, they just dont have a GUI for it https://www.migadu.com/guides/thunderbird/

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by donmcronald »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #50
estaseuropano wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm quite happy with Migadu for own domain use. I have a dozen that are unlikely to receive email but good to be able to receive them nonethelrss - migadu is great for that as you can add as many domains as you want. Calendar feature is sorely missing though it seems this service also doesn't have it. I guess calendar is a pain to set up/troubleshoot timezone issues, etc

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 super low quota, so it’s useless for spamming.

That’s 100x better than the options on Office 365 which absolutely sucks ($$$) for low volume email coming from devices.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by nmlt »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #4

These tiny services are cool. I have the cheapest account on Migadu[1] for all my random custom domain emails. 1. https://www.migadu.com

How does Migadu compare to purelymail? I’m not using either and it looks like migadu has their own software stack instead of using something like roundcube, etc. And not just a single person behind it.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by progx »

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.

If a plane crash into your house while you stop the service for maintenance, how will the service be back again and can we access our mails?

Sure, i use IMAP and have local copy and backup. But Murphy's law, my Laptop die at the same time and my backups were stolen.

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