Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by komali2 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @01:33AM (#33304837)

But what's the alternative? Does SMTP even work without a domain? I dipped my toes in this far enough to connect a custom domain to a mailbox hosted by bluehost so I don't know too much but I always seek to separate from Google et al wherever possible. I thought the buck stops at DNS and domain registration though, short of like, that gnu internet project I vaguely remember, what's the alternative?

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by csande17 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:57AM (#33305117)

You can theoretically send email to an IP address directly, like someone@[127.0.0.1], but I imagine a lot of the programs and websites you'd want to use don't know that. And you're still left with the problem of needing to get that IP address from someone who can arbitrarily take it away from you.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by justsomehnguy on Sunday October 23, 2022 @03:00AM (#33305130)

> Does SMTP even work without a domain

It is, but don't expecting people understand what [email protected] is a perfectly valid address, nor the anti-spam systems or designers of web/mail apps and services.

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