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Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by litmus-pit-git »

palata wrote: post #131
litmus-pit-git wrote: post #101

And I will be leaving Mailbox.org for Runbox, or Purelymail, or Fastmail. I have a few more months' credit remaining on Mailbox, besides I am yet to try the trials. (This is for the author and anyone else) If you are looking for responsive (or even barely responsive) and responsible support responses whenever you need it, weigh your options very carefully about which mail host you want to move to. You might need it o…

Have you considered Migadu? I don't have shares there, just a very happy customer :-).

I did. Their 20 out/day (soft limit) had me concerned. While many weeks I might send less than 7 emails I still feel uncomfortable with those limits.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by indigodaddy »

monkeywork wrote: post #183
indigodaddy wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take it easy. It's not their official support channel. They have tickets like everyone else, with the added bonus that you can nudge them in their chat. You can take advantage of it or not, no forcing involved. The discord is more about community than a support channel. In fact they will usually ask you to open a ticket if you haven't already for direct support issues that don't look to be a general/shared issue.

Curious who is looking for "community" when it comes to their email hosting provider. The word "community" gets tossed around so much it's basically meaningless - but I mean, even in the loosest definition of it why would you want to interact with random people who simply use the same provider you do... like would you want a Discord server for your local gas station chain or power company?

Tech nerds. vps nerds. Hosting nerds. if that's not you, then yeah probably not

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

immibis wrote: post #108
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #92

I'd really like to just run my own Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin stack, but it seems totally discouraged these days just on the basis of email sender reputation.

Just do it. You're allowed to have more than one address. You can keep using Gmail for important things while you experiment with your own server.

Might as well, right?

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by indigodaddy »

tamimio wrote: post #192
indigodaddy wrote: post #22

Anyone considering a move should also look at NameCrane/CraneMail by the crew behind BuyVM. Solid service, incredibly reasonable prices, great community/discord. They are always looking to improve, extremely proactive and reactive to customer feedback and issues. No builtin PGP, but I believe that is out of their control as they use SmarterMail on the backend.

Same question as above, do they have masked emails feature? Also, if you go the demo email they have, settings-connectivity, you can literally see all other people’s IP who are logged in there, concerning.

Is masking essentially email aliasing? If so yes they have aliases. re: about the IPs, yes that doesn't sound great for a shared system, something to probably bring up to them

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by litmus-pit-git »

onlyhumans wrote: post #134
rendleflag wrote: post #122

I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an issue worrying about updating people with my new email.

Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.

The trick is in never ever touching the username@paid-main-provider.tld to give out to anyone. It's just for logging in.

My mailbox.org username is literally three random short Engish dict words concatnated by underscores (e.g jet_sit_gill@mailbox.org) just to ensure I'd never share that email with anyone. I only use my domain's email addresses. This way there's ZERO lock, zero fear of them giving my email to someone else and staying with the domain provider for a day longer than I have to.

For email addresses on others' domains here

- icloud.com came with the devices (I honestly have not thought about what happens to these if I have zero Apple device at one point in future :D)

- tutanota(barely ever used; just to support them I paid until they removed the 12/year plan)

- protonmail, and sdf.org (ARPA)

All of these at least let me hold on to the email address even with little resources when I stop paying or have an unpaid a/c. So little risk of email goign to someone else. And I never use these for anything important anyway.

For temp emails - duck.com, HideMyEmail (stopped using this one for new accounts though).

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by litmus-pit-git »

kelnos wrote: post #177
onlyhumans wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.

I really wish all mail providers made it easy and seamless to bring your own domain (or register and manage one in the background for you, without you having to care for the details). Obviously giving a service-tied email domain to users is a great lock-in strategy. But it's worrying that so many people have a big part of their online identity tied to Google. (You can even sign up for a Google Account without GMail,…

Yes, I use Google (that's rare; when I 'must' must) with a icloud.com temp hidemyemail address created Google a/c.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by Sniffnoy »

arccy wrote: post #195
Sniffnoy wrote: post #113

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That sounds like a problem with the Gmail webmail client -- I don't think Gmail does that when used over IMAP with an external client?

the web client can send plain text, it's only the mobile client that doesn't have an option to do so

Oh, OK, that's good to know. Regardless the point is that it's a client issue.

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by litmus-pit-git »

vhstapes wrote: post #218
onlyhumans wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.

At one point in the late 90s the U.S. Post Office was going to host email. Sadly, it didn’t happen.

You don't have reserved/registered post bags (with a identifier at a certain post office) in your country? Or not available to individual users?

Re: Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org

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Post by MatmaRex »

onlyhumans wrote: post #134
rendleflag wrote: post #122

I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an issue worrying about updating people with my new email.

Fastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.

I don't think that's true. Some years ago I did a free trial with them (did not pay anything). More recently I decided to actually sign up (for a paid account) and the email address I used for the free trial years ago was not available. I eventually got that username only after contacting support and giving them the date on which I started that free trial, to prove it was me.
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