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> Because nation states are well known for producing usable software at a reasonable cost to tax payers? Well, actually - yes? My country has lots of problems, but government-issued software is surprisingly good. I would have trust issues however after it came up, that they used Pegasus very liberally.
Which country is that?
Sure domain registrars and email providers are not infallible, but it's a huge step up from trusting Googles customer service to do the right thing
It is a bit overkill, but the closest you can get to owning your online identity is to "own" your own domain. sarcastiquotes used because you don't really own a domain you only rent it. I run my own mail server because I am a sys-admin and running a mail-server is something I do for fun. but the amount of agency you gain once you have a domain is staggering. people without a domain are pretty much second class net ci…
While a US municipality may or may not operate their locality-based domain (here, the university does), ordinary persons are able to get subdomains under them. The only reason I haven't is because the university here doesn't bother to respond when I follow the process. But you may have better luck where you are.
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Agreed. And Migadu has quite cheap plans and very good service during the two years that I use them. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
Zoho has a free plan that I've been happy with although its only been a month since I moved to them from gmail.
> These extra trips through different email servers strip the emails of information about the sending server which is critical to protect against spam and email forgery.
Sure, a forwarder can strip information from a forwarded message; but that's a rogue SMTP server. And this would be your previous email provider; so you'll know whether they're rogue before you start forwarding messages through them.
> Email was designed in the 1960s
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You get your own domain; then host your email at a provider that offers bring-your-own-domain. Now you have a portable email. Your domain registrar cannot interfere with your messages, unless you choose to host your email with your domain registrar.
I agree that an email address is a poor identity token. As with SQL, an identity should be an opaque object with no embedded meaning. In addition to being an identity, an email address is a communications endpoint, and is parseable, so it's not opaque.
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I own my domain name, however I opted to go through google apps for hosting my email. Most of the time it's fine, however the part that breaks down (and many have already commented about this) is that I can't make use of any of the google services via that email (nest, voice, etc). So I ended up creating another gmail account that is only used for those services. All that said: can someone point me in the direction o…
I've set up my custom domain with iCloud mail and it's been 100% painless. The web client is pretty basic but also snappy and reliable. YMMV if you're not in the Apple ecosystem; but if you are, it's all super smooth. I have no idea how it works with the Google stuff, as I'm actively trying to avoid it; but last time I checked, you could create a Google account with any email you like, and things just work.
Another solution that the article doesn't mention: separate the email address from the email provider. It really is the domain name that is your legal identity. Make it as easy for people to register a personal domain name as it is for them to sign up for free email so they can switch from Gmail to Hotmail to Protonmail without changing their email address. Edit: We then need a standard for discoverable DNS settings…
But what credentials do you use to log into the personal domain name provider, to manage it? Another email? Unless there is state-guaranteed ownership of a domain name, this will remain to be chicken-and-egg problem: to manage a domain one needs an account with an email, and to have an independent email one needs a domain. Even then, moving between countries is normal now which poses a huge challenge to the concept o…
web3 is correcting this with censorship resistance usernames via ethereum name service[0]. a lot of famous folks have already using them [1]. [0] https://ens.domains/ [1] https://ethleaderboard.xyz/
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I run my own mail server as well, on my own domain, own server, physically present in my home. It's increasingly becoming a hassle.. Especially sending mail from a "consumer" line is tricky, they block outgoing port 25 and no longer really provide a relay host for you to go through either.. I basically had to infiltrate my current ISP to get access to people in netops and gaslight them into configuring reverse-dns an…
Everyone deserves an e-mail that can't be taken away from them without a court order.
The best time to use a custom domain name under your control for personal email was when you first started corresponding via email. The second best time is now.