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My own mail policy is simple: - a hosted service because host one myself is too much work CAUSED by anti-spam measure by some "self-appointed sheriffs" of the net; - mail fetched from remote via fetchmail, no messages left on the server, filtered on my homeserver via maildrop, indexed via notmuch, muchsync-ed over SSH to desktop(s)/laptop. That's is.
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First of all, bring your own domain. That way you can just point the same address elsewhere if you need to switch again without having to deal with forwarding. edit: As mentioned by a sibling comment, my email is currently on Fastmail, zero problems.
Sounds reasonable. Any gotchas there? I already read that vanity TLDs are bad, obscure countries' TLDs are bad, and even .eu may be unstable. Which are good services that can sell me an .org or .de domain for a fair price?
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What are those better options that HN likes? I just switched all my accounts to protonmail, but stories like this make me want to reconsider. The fact that they won't allow me to set up a forwarding rule in case I want to switch again doesn't help.
First of all, bring your own domain. That way you can just point the same address elsewhere if you need to switch again without having to deal with forwarding. edit: As mentioned by a sibling comment, my email is currently on Fastmail, zero problems.
The amount of bad, long-lived bugs that aren't addressed because "we'll rewrite it any day now!" in many software organizations is very upsetting
> the reason why we're not putting top prio on this at the moment is that we're doing a significant rewrite The amount of bad, long-lived bugs that aren't addressed because "we'll rewrite it any day now!" in many software organizations is very upsetting
They also don’t care about locking you permanently out of your own e-Mail with no warning, for no reason, with no recourse. Honestly - there are far better options out there. They’re not in anyway a responsible enough business to manage an e-mail service. It’s run more like a hobby project than critical infrastructure.
The first clue might have been the UID for an in-use mailbox with over 50K messages being 51950.
The comments in the linked thread are shocking. One person says they lost a job because of email lost by ProtonMail.
Their approach is "we know it's an issue, we are _rewriting everything_ to a new version, in the meantime suck it up lol"
What is shocking is the lack of communication from their side.