Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email

Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by johnklos on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:27AM (#27711222)

There is a reason - DigitalOcean. A more appropriate name would be DigitalCesspool. They allow anything, so long as you pay them. I'd block email from their networks, but there are already plenty of ways that spam servers on their networks screw up (bad EHLO name, broken reverse DNS, SPF for all IP addresses), so that email is not accepted anyway.

Microsoft sucks for rejecting email without recourse, but you're on DigitalOcean, so can you really blame them?

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Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by donmcronald on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:17AM (#27712616)

I’m not on digital ocean and I don’t know anyone who is. I’m on the receiving end using office 365. Problems I see are for mail coming from shared hosts and isps.

IMHO there’s never a reason for Microsoft or Google to drop mail silently if it’s deliverable. Let me decide if I want to do that, but don’t force it on me.

Google is awful too. Accounts locked for “suspicious activity” stop accepting incoming mail. I’ve seen people lose a day of email over a weekend before noticing ta false positive account lock.

What it really comes down to for me is that I don’t think either of them could act that negligently in a fairer market with better competition.

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Re:Purelymail – cheap, no-nonsense email by shaicoleman on Saturday July 03, 2021 @08:28PM (#27726238)

Things will only change if enough paying customers complain loudly about it.

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