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Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

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Eventually all Internet protocols will be MITMed by cloudflare. Your single point of interception!

Was about to comment on this but you got right to the point. All of this is because people are lazy to build, let alone maintain, their own damn programs and servers.

OOF

Do you talk to your customers with that mouth?

For those who are lazy to click, this guy's business is hosting and maintaining a sales platform for people.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#62
Finally. My two production projects are built entirely on Cloudflare workers platform, and I dread every time I have to login into AWS to manage SES. I even wrote a note for myself with instructions which buttons to press and where to navigate, like you'd write for your elderly relative who's "not good with technology".

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#63

It's always shocking to me how many people blindly sacrifice the principles that make the things their lives depend on actually worthwhile. The internet isn't just a thing that happened, it was developed and rolled out under specific principles and vision, and violating those principles destroys the system. The internet doesn't work if Matthew Prince gets to act as global gatekeeper, or if CloudFlare gets conscripted…

In principle I agree, but in practice - what the better ways of doing things, as of now?

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#65

My understanding is that "Best Practice" is to use different companies for different services (not to have all of your "eggs in one basket") in case something goes wrong with one company and they take everything down. This is what I have... Domain Name Registrar: Dynadot DNS: Cloudlare Hosting: Dreamhost Email: Fastmail Should everything be under Cloudflare? I think they also do domain name registration and now, soon…

Does Fastmail have an easy API for sending messages from an app? I've tried it before but found it much more complex than an API call.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

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post #4

Eventually all Internet protocols will be MITMed by cloudflare. Your single point of interception!

I dunno, I am basically a dick to Big Tech all the time, give me an opening and I will go after them with gusto, but I can't really find fault in Cloudflare offering email sending infrastructure. The ire should be reserved for if and when they establish some kind of monopoly or other anti-consumer practices, fall afoul of anti-trust law, and inevitably the US government gives them a free pass for criminality like it…

> Also yes, please do set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC for me.

I'm going to take this opportunity, because hopefully Cloudflare will see it, to request they support SPF record flattening natively.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

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Eventually all Internet protocols will be MITMed by cloudflare. Your single point of interception!

To be honest, the internet was worse without Cloudflare, so as long as they provide a good service for their customers, I’m fine with it. This is one of those.

Google is in a perfect position to compete but they don’t, so it’s not like Cloudflare is a monopoly or something.

At least they’re not selling ads using your data.

Re: Cloudflare Email Service: private beta

#69

I've been using email workers for years now. Adding the ability to send emails directly from workers will be amazing!

Fun fact, you can actually use the current send_email binding to send emails to verified emails in your account (but this announcement will make it possible to send emails to everyone)
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