Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative

Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by jbergstroem on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:16PM (#16394411)

I'm just now experiencing the direct opposite with Fastmail. Used it to avoid setting up my own mail server for a ~50 user gitlab instance. Went from trial user to paying for a full year and one day later my account is now blocked. Found this message in the first rejected email: "We couldn't figure out what the email is for. Please create your issue or comment through the web interface.". Can't send mail through webmail interface. Can't access IMAP nor SMTP. Support emails from their own support doesn't go through.

So, without any means to control it myself I'm now in the mercy of fastmail support unless I set up my own postfix/dovecot in the meantime. I guess it goes both ways.

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by dasyatidprime on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:40PM (#16394673)

… hang on, what plan did you ask for for this, and what kind of mail were you actually sending/receiving? As far as I'm aware, Fastmail charges per-user, and isn't advertised as suitable for sending automated mail through. It sounds very strange to use it as a replacement for “setting up a mail server for a GitLab instance”.

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by jbergstroem on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:38PM (#16395927)

What ToS am I violating exactly? I’m _well_ within limits for both incoming and outgoing and all recipients sign up for receiving the emails. The gitlab wiki even uses fastmail as an example for smtp.

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Re:Show HN: OpenBSD Email Service – A free-email alternative by jbergstroem on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:23AM (#16405706)

For record-keeping: got a reply two days later from support saying that they do not support sending notification emails, which this is classified as.

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