• @[email protected]
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    853 months ago

    If this works out it might be a nice place to migrate to away from my self-hosted e-mail provided they eventually let you bring your own domain. Just sucks that e-mail is essentially the most secure thing you need to have since compromising that can compromise every account attached to the e-mail. That’s a lot of trust you need to instill in your e-mail host.

        • @[email protected]
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          53 months ago

          I meant hosting wise, at home or using a VPS? How did you get a fixed IP/ what are you using for a proxy?

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            It’s a colocated server. I provided the physical server and they put it into a rack in a datacenter with power and networking (static IP).

            • @[email protected]
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              13 months ago

              Eh it depends. I’m fortunate enough to be in a good IP block so I don’t get my e-mails dropped purely on that. It’s been a good learning experience and I’ve leaned on my own server a number of times for troubleshooting at work since I can see the whole mail flow. The only problem I have is the free Outlook/Hotmail will not accept my e-mails. Everybody else seems fine. All that said, I don’t host anybody else’s e-mail so I haven’t had any spam come out of my IP, and I would never in a million years host e-mail for a customer.

          • @[email protected]
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            33 months ago

            VPS, I wouldn’t run a mail server from my home network. If you go with mailinabox you don’t need to set up a proxy, it’s pretty simple.

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      123 months ago

      I have fond memories of self-hosting a qmail setup for a long time, then eventually migrating to a postfix configuration, back in the day.

      Keeping up with spam filtering finally did me in.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        The spam filtering is painful. I kinda work around it by giving a unique e-mail for everything and of one starts getting spammed I just rid of that e-mail. Tends to give you advance warning of data breaches too since you’ll start seeing the spam come in before the announcement.

    • Rose56
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      83 months ago

      You are like those people that always say “Do people still use INPUT SOMETHING”. Do you text or call only? What about your work? you call or send a text instead of email ? maybe drop of some files instead of emailing them? I have so many questions.

    • 74 183.84
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      53 months ago

      The people who dont are usually old as people who dont need it anymore or kids

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Tell me you have no meaningful impact on the world without telling me you have no meaningful impact on the world.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        If only they could develop a federated short message system.

        Messenger/WhatsApp/slack messaging style but federated like email

        • RachelOP
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          43 months ago

          Email was originally one of the first federated systems. Anyone can host a server and send messages back and forth from other servers with a set standard. That basically is federation.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          Email is federated, it’s just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars…

          Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.

          Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.

        • @[email protected]
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          63 months ago

          check out deltachat, it’s an email client with an interface like an instant messaging app

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            Email still has it’s place. So changing the interface will likely make email less useable.

            Ideally something alongside email but not email.

  • @[email protected]
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    53 months ago

    Sounded great until the “assist” ai feature. I friggin hate Gemini in gmail so any other kind of ai is an automatic nogo for me

  • @[email protected]
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    143 months ago

    welp I signed up for the waitlist.

    I’ll use it for a disposable email at first, and if it endures and does well I’ll move my main shit off to it.

  • @[email protected]
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    723 months ago

    I think it’s incredibly important that people know, with absolute certainty, whether or not the new Mozilla/Firefox privacy policy in any way applies to / covers such a service.

    I’m not saying I know the answer- What I’m saying without a concrete, permanently applied answer it’s not even considerable.

    • RachelOP
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      363 months ago

      There is no email service that exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        Firefox/Mozilla operated without any of the new additions for nearly the entire history of the internet until this year. If anything, “over”-reacting to the new policies was too weak a reaction. You do you and all, but I’ll agree to very strongly disagree.

      • @[email protected]
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        at exists without a terms of use and privacy policy. I still feel everyone overreacted about Firefox. It’s funnier how many people said they switched to Brave because of it and all the super shady stuff Brave has done.

        Being angry at the Mozilla foundation for those changes is understandable. Switching to Brave because of it is plain stupid.

        • @[email protected]
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          83 months ago

          I do think the brave devs or teams starting spreading the “switch to brave” as a growth hack. No right minded person would pick brave over ff. Maybe librewolf sure.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      What is it that you’re concerned about? Assume that I have no idea what either the new or old Mozilla privacy policy is, please. I tend to assume that all such are a pack of lies and everything is spying on me.

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      You can’t know that with absolute certainty. Sorry, but if you’re using someone elses server for your communications and they’re not end to end encrypted, you should just assume that they can and do read your emails, and act accordingly.

  • @[email protected]
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    183 months ago

    Here’s what I want… I leave a computer on at home and it checks my email. I get emails from it at my phone. No setup. Make it work like Sinkthing used to work. I don’t want cloud anything. Fucking backup nightmare where my shit ends up kidnapped by a company for monthly ransom.

  • arch
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    303 months ago

    I was thinking ab this being april fool bcz it’s posted on 1st…

  • Geetnerd
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    123 months ago

    I’m listening…

    But how is a small non-profit going to afford a free email service? Ads in every email?

    • RachelOP
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      63 months ago

      Based on what I’ve seen in their forums it will be a paid service. I think it will be free at first for beta testers but I assume they are targeting people who currently use services like Proton.

      • Geetnerd
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        23 months ago

        Thanks for the info.

        But I think they’ll still need an ad driven free version to gain acceptance.

  • Tea
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    Out of all the articles and the official release announcement, you could share, you shared forbes which violate people privacy.

    Why?

    • @[email protected]
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      93 months ago

      You imply OP knows how to read & they read the whole article and noticed the source. 💀

    • RachelOP
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      113 months ago

      Tbh because it was the one shared on Reddit. Though if you have the right browser extensions when I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    I looked at this but it asked me to download it. Can I access it through a browser like I can Google?

  • Dr. Moose
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    33 months ago

    Yet thunderbird still can’t single click open an email in a new window. If I recall correctly the request has been filed in 2014 or smt 💀

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        Nope, still requires double click.

        It’s almost like you didn’t read my comment and went straight to angry. This has been suggested for years with 0 response from Thunderbird team and there’s no way to extend it without forking and patching everything yourself.

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          03 months ago

          If you’ve done nothing but complain for 14 years then I’m glad you still have to double click.

          • Dr. Moose
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            13 months ago

            Lmao sure buddy i should have forked a web browser, learn their front end and patched everything myself! Ir you know fuck right off to a billion other email clients that don’t ship literally the most complex piece of software in the world with it 🙄