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I thought at first people were just ignoring me, but when a company reached out to me over SMS to respond to a complaint I had, they said their email reply had bounced so was contacting me on SMS instead
Switched to fastmail at that point.
This shows that email should die in a tyre fire and we all need to collectively move to something else… but we should have done this more than 10 years ago. Email has SO many technical issues that if someone would have come out with email today, nobody would use it! The ONLY thing going for it really is that it’s decentralised and has the network effect that almost everyone uses it. Bzzzt, I kid I kid! Anyone under 2…
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Yep, whenever I start a new job I say "Don't worry, because iamverysmart, you don't need any Microsoft products!" I am then hailed as a genius, everyone claps, and I get a big fat raise.
This sort of anti-progress sentiment doesn't belong here, I feel.
I lost faith in iCloud custom domains a few months ago, I was receiving the usual marketing emails etc fine, but actual person to person emails? Sometimes replies would come through, other times nothing. I thought at first people were just ignoring me, but when a company reached out to me over SMS to respond to a complaint I had, they said their email reply had bounced so was contacting me on SMS instead Switched to…
iCloud custom domain, i'm scoring perfectly (other than mail message content which is irrelevant in this case). https://www.mail-tester.com/test-cqf7rdktf
So, Apple sends the wrong EHLO domain when trying to send emails out. This results in them dropping emails to their own users. Can't get past Apple's level 1 support. How can I get to someone that maintains their SMTP k8s cluster?
By posting on Hacker News and making it to the front page. The same support strategy also works for all the other major providers
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Sure you can. For instance, I don't use Exchange at all.
Yep, whenever I start a new job I say "Don't worry, because iamverysmart, you don't need any Microsoft products!" I am then hailed as a genius, everyone claps, and I get a big fat raise.
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I hate getting a report telling me my work domain is blocked because it is missing a PTR record and we use Exchange Online. I can’t do anything about that!
sure you can, take your business elsewhere
Microsoft being annoying and frustrating and having so many issues is why I have a well paying job in IT.
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This sort of anti-progress sentiment doesn't belong here, I feel.
The snarky „just don’t use Exchange, duh!“ doesn’t either. It’s a non-solution that armchair experts provide, who aren’t responsible for managing mailing for lots of people.