FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses

Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by loh on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:48AM (#25303596)

Would it be frowned upon if I use this thread as an excuse to shamelessly advertise TricepMail.com? It's a better approach to catch all email that I've been working on. MVP released last month with polish and feature additions (but not feature creep) still in the works.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by tzs on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:11PM (#25306377)

It's not clear to me from your site what advantages your service has over already existing well-known services. Most people already have an email solution, so I think you need to make it clear how yours is different and why that might be better for them.

For example, I've already got Fastmail's standard plan ($5/month if purchased on a month-to-month basis). That allows 600 aliases, 8000 receives per day, 8000 sends per day, 30 GB email storage, 10 GB file storage. Your $5/month plan has bigger limits for some of those, and smaller limits for some of those, but I'm not seeing anything that tells me I might find your service useful either in addition to or as a replacement for Fastmail.

For email, I think a lot of people are going to lean toward an established provider in the hopes that this increases the chances of them being around long term.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by loh on Friday December 04, 2020 @05:55PM (#25309430)

Thanks for the very helpful feedback.

Last time I used Fastmail, I had to manually setup the aliases in advance, before they could receive mail. It also isn't possible to send from aliases on Fastmail. I find Fastmail's UI/UX to be too cumbersome for what I want to do with my email.

Once I've added a few more key features and polished the UI a bit, I am planning on revamping the landing page to make things clearer.

Thanks again for the feedback. It's incredibly useful.

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by geek_at on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:56AM (#25303707)

Funny I made an open source project for the exact same thing with API and even RSS access :D https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by loh on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:15AM (#25303983)

Looks good! Does the interface organize mail by mailbox? Can you also easily send email from any mailbox? And is there blocking/accepting from specific senders?

In TricepMail, messages to e.g. [email protected] versus [email protected] are separated in the UI, and you can configure the "ignore" mailbox to block all incoming messages. You can also setup mailboxes that accept messages from specific senders only.

TricepMail also has everything (and a bit more) that you've listed under "Web interface". TricepMail isn't meant to be used for trash/throwaways, but you can use it for that if you want. It's meant to compartmentalize real email for the demands of today, especially for things like the FCC requiring email addresses on applications.

For example, I would consider incoming email from the FCC to be extremely important (definitely not trash), but I wouldn't want to use my usual personal email address for this. I would still want to see it without going through all the hassle of setting up a separate email server and/or using a separate email client. I want everything in one simple, organized place. This is why I created TricepMail.

I've starred your repo. Looking forward to seeing its progress. :)

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by mtnGoat on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:10AM (#25303900)

Looks like a cool project, maybe include setup instructions that don't require docker?

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:32AM (#25304232)

If I know one valid address, say, [email protected] and send to random address [email protected], will it be delivered as legitimate?

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Re:FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateu... by loh on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:49PM (#25306111)

Yes.

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