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Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by iamnothere »

pzmarzly wrote: post #4

Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…

This is why you (1) keep a local backup and (2) never ever use shady registrars for anything important. Hopefully you have learned from this and you regularly backup your email from Google in case your account becomes inaccessible for whatever reason.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by BeetleB »

marssaxman wrote: post #19

I've been doing this for years, though I don't really think of it as "having a backup" so much as "using an IMAP client". Works fine. It's really useful to be able to make up a new email address for every company who wants one; they each get their own folder. If I get any unexpected mail, it's obvious where it came from and easy to deal with, though in practice this rarely happens.

> I've been doing this for years

Downloading email via POP or IMAP? Ever since I started using email in the 90's. I never deviated from it. In the old days, even the free mail hosts gave you POP access.

My own domain? Doing it for over 20 years.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by nodja »

pzmarzly wrote: post #4

Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access tempo…

For people reading this that are worried, .com and .net domains are price capped and while the price may rise, it's regulated directly by the ICANN. If you're paying more than that then either your registrar is not following ICANN regulations or you're buying a domain that is being resold by a third party.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by morshu9001 »

manytimesaway wrote: post #6

"How to become unbannable" Step 1 : go with the one company that's known worldwide for abusive & permanent bans with no recourse. This post is a bit too generic, but it's true that using your own domain for mailing is the best solution to avoid getting locked out. Although you need to pick a good registrar, too...

well your recourse is repointing the domain

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by ozim »

You don’t have to have a single email address. I have plenty and various providers.

Then use mail client instead of webmail. I use thunderbird and have multiple boxes I just backup Thunderbird profiles folder to my NAS.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by wtf77 »

That's fine for your own domain, but I usually download my emails via IMAP and don't leave anything on the remote server. Finally, do you really keep your emails? Emails are ephemeral, often just informative, and if there's anything important, I process it and delete the email. I may archive 'sentimental' emails, but I rarely search the archive as I mainly delete emails.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by marssaxman »

BeetleB wrote: post #22
marssaxman wrote: post #19

I've been doing this for years, though I don't really think of it as "having a backup" so much as "using an IMAP client". Works fine. It's really useful to be able to make up a new email address for every company who wants one; they each get their own folder. If I get any unexpected mail, it's obvious where it came from and easy to deal with, though in practice this rarely happens.

> I've been doing this for years Downloading email via POP or IMAP? Ever since I started using email in the 90's. I never deviated from it. In the old days, even the free mail hosts gave you POP access. My own domain? Doing it for over 20 years.

Yep, pretty much the same story here. The only (relatively) recent innovation is the bit where mail sent to foo@domain.com lands in a folder called "foo", so I neither have to sort out a messy inbox nor check many accounts individually.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by ROBLOX_MOMENTS »

mobilemidget wrote: post #13

Creating aliases for the addresses you are actually using, e.g. a netflix@ signup is preferred over a general catch all, .. and all that spam senders can generate approach.

Some services will also ban you for this. Samsung, Amazon, ... so you have to use generic or random words on left side.

Re: Become unbannable from your email

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Post by iamnothere »

brulard wrote: post #27
hu3 wrote: post #5

That's good but make sure you don't lose the domain. Ever.

And that's the real hard part

Have you ever lost a domain? I haven’t despite having many domains across a number of registrars over the years. Are people just using bad registrars or what?
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