Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by looparing on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:23AM
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Why don’t you just tag and gatekeep automatically by domain of the sender?
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by amy-petrik-214 on Friday July 26, 2024 @12:07AM
(#41075698)
I agree with you for 99% of cases but there can be unexpected domains in the mail, or more interestingly, having your data sold. If hyperrin-nexflux2@port69 starts getting random spams for example, then you have a good idea who fucked up
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by hperrin on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:28PM
(#41080980)
Because senders don't always use the same domain, and this way lets you block the entire address. If a service leaks your email address, you can just block that email address.
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by woleium on Friday July 26, 2024 @06:17PM
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gmail does this already with . as the delimiter
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by ratg13 on Friday July 26, 2024 @08:24PM
(#41083575)
You can add extra periods, but not extra text/labels
Some people get around this by using the plus sign, but how some systems treat plus signs can be unpredictable.
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by woleium on Saturday July 27, 2024 @10:52AM
(#41086972)
Right, my mistake, its + as a delimiter.
Re:Ask HN: Is there room for a new email hosting service?
by hperrin on Saturday July 27, 2024 @12:03PM
(#41087392)
It still all just goes to your inbox. It won't put it in a label for you, you can't control whether you get push notifications per address, and it won't autorespond with a challenge on ones meant for real people.
My email is [email protected].
When I want to give my email to a service, like Netflix, I wouldn't use that though. I'd use something like [email protected]. Then when Netflix sends an email there, Port87 will automatically create a pending "netflix" label for me to approve. All of Netflix's emails will go there. Each email address is separated from all other accounts, the email is automatically organized, and you can control whether you want notifications and to mark new email as read per label.
Then if I want to give my email to a friend, I would use something like [email protected]. My "friends" label has screening enabled, so any new sender gets an email back asking them to click a link to prove they're human before their email is delivered.
Finally, I can share [email protected] publicly, because any email sent there gets an autoresponse with a list of addresses for my "public labels". The sender can choose which label is best for their message. For example, I have a lot of open source projects, so I have a public "opensource" label.
I've been using it for over a year now since I launched it publicly, and it's really a night and day difference over the more traditional style email services.