Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by freedomben on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:09PM
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Man I so want to do that, but the pricing just seems outrageous at minimum $3/user/month, standard $5/user/month.
I've been wanting to hack together some scripts to use a serverless cloud provider like SES. Since I rarely check my email and almost never send any, it's crazy to pay such a high monthly fee.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by hopler on Saturday January 05, 2019 @06:38PM
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Register a domain name with mail forwarding and use wildcard aliases to forward all mail on your domain to your real mailbox.
I use mailgun to forward mails incoming on my domain to my usual web mail accounts. Free tier is more than enough, since i don't expect hundreds of mails per day.
Sending is a bit painful, though. Also sometimes mails fail to be forwarded and get stuck for a while... annoying when you're waiting for some kind of link / code.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by manigandham on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:27PM
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If you get a lot of spam and it's all forwarded than some providers like Gmail will treat your email address as the source of the spam rather than the original sender.
Re:Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
by freedomben on Friday January 04, 2019 @09:54PM
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Interesting, thanks for the tip!
One benefit of switching to mail on my own domain (powered by FastMail at the moment) is that instead of username@mydomain, I can also use [email protected]. Which is hopefully less common and too dangerous to automatically filter out in "data cleaning".