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Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by ValentineC » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 3:00 AM UTC

brongondwana wrote: post #70

zephyr9 wrote: post #3

I've been using Purelymail as my sole mail provider for over a year now (previously with Fastmail) and it has been my best email experience. It's a one-man enterprise, which may frighten some people, but I prefer boutique internet companies to the faceless monoliths. (I'd like more of the internet to be made of these small corner bodegas.)

Fastmail isn't entirely faceless either :p But we're definitely not still the 3-man show that we were before the Opera years (up until 2010). Obviously, I think Fastmail is worth the extra for the multi-copy redundancy & backups, new features, contributions we're making to the standards world, and not being dependent on a single person - the past few years in particular we've been focusing on not only being able to s…

It's a shame that I don't think I can ever recommend Fastmail, because I had some really old @fastmail.fm accounts that were grandfathered into their free plan [1], but got deleted because I wasn't in the right frame of mind to log in within the 120 days grace period.

[1] https://fastmail.blog/historical/changes-to-fastmail-service...

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by gkmcd » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 4:10 AM UTC

bambax wrote: post #134

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.

Slightly OT, but what is the best practice to store (archive) email locally after they have been read from a remote imap server? 3 Gb is plenty for a few months of "live" email but after that what should we do to keep those emails -- and still have them searchable if need be?

I have a local maildir[1] account in Evolution. Each of my (IMAP) mail accounts is set so the "archive" command moves the message to a folder under the maildir account (if you're using Evolution, this can be configured under "Defaults" in the account properties for each IMAP account). Anything worth keeping from any of my IMAP mail accounts is archived to the local maildir, everything else is deleted.

The local maildir account is searchable like any other mailbox (I have about 10,000 messages going back to 2003). Syncthing[2] is configured to sync the maildir directory for backup and sync.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

[2]https://syncthing.net/

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by peakaboo » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 7:57 AM UTC

berkes wrote: post #259

creeble wrote: post #242

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From 23 years of running my own email (and for about a dozen other domains), this is a pretty good summary. One domain has a small mailing list of about 200 users. The @yahoo.com addresses (and related, Yahoo-handled domains like old @att and @sbcglobal domains) are often just dropped. Gmail addresses frequently go to spam, especially newly-added domains. I have found that having multiple @gmail users mark them as “n…

My emailserver runs at linode. It delivered fine for some 10 years, then I started getting blackholed (at Microsoft live, hotmail, 365, outlook). This IP does only mail. Server is secure, up to date and has all the DKIM/SPF nonsense. It's impossible to reach humans that can help. It's impossible to unlist. So I'm now on my third IP, my last one running mail for 4+ years, from Digital Ocean. Only now, occasionally, do…

I use Fastmail and Microsoft Outlook sometimes puts mail from Fastmail in the spam folder. It's only Outlook that does this because when it happens, I ask what email server they use. Always outlook.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by ybbond » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 5:33 PM UTC

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #258

pwned1 wrote: post #255

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Don't go with namecheap, the biggest hive of scammers and spammers on the planet. Move your private domain to a reputable provider, like Fastmail. I've had my main personal domain with them for a decade and never had a problem.

Thanks for the reply. Fastmail is indeed nice (I've used them before but not hosting my own domain). But at this point, I'm not willing to risk moving to another player besides MS or Google.

same case with me. I've been using Fastmail for 2 years, but moved to Private Email 2 months ago, and currently using Office365's Exchange.

After 2 occurrences of my mail goes into spam folder, I became paranoid and always BCC my gmail account for every important email.

In the end I say "what the hell" and subscribed to O365. Google Workspace is too expensive for me.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by ybbond » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 5:36 PM UTC

I tried Purelymail and though I trust the service, Runbox's web interface left much to be desired. I also have mail went to spam with Fastmail that makes me paranoid and always BCC my gmail account for every important email.

One thing that I don't like with Microsoft and Google's mail service is the need to create new account to have a custom domain mail.

Re: Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

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Post by ZohoMailSupport » Tue, Jul 06, 2021, 1:52 PM UTC

dqv wrote: post #223

wolrah wrote: post #216

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> 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. In my personal experience, over five years of running my own business and personal email entirely and another decade and counting since of running PBXes that directly send voicemail m…

Do you/did you have feedback loop accounts setup for all of them? Yahoo, for example, sends a notification to sys@ (or whatever email you tell them to) when someone marks one of our emails as spam or when it thinks we're sending bulk email. They also have sender support. They did want me to set up something where we used the same connection to send email to them. I forgot My "blacklisted" email company is Zoho becaus…

Hi there! I'm contacting you from the Zoho Mail team. Please drop an email to support zohomail com with the sending server logs & IP address. Our technical team will analyze and get back to you with a potential resolution. Thanks!