• d_k_bo@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    I recently got a confused look when I said that I pay for my email provider (3€/mo, but 1€/mo would also work).

    Many people don’t realize that operating an email server creates cost and they pay with letting Google/Yahoo/… read and analyze their communication.

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        7 months ago

        How do you get around websites that force you to use whitelisted domains? I had a self hosted email for a while and I was often considered spam.

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          I tell them to go fuck themselves. A more serious problem is that unless you sign up with a provider that has all of the encryption/verification stuff sorted out and a significant amount of outgoing mail, your messages will go straight to spam for everyone else.

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          7 months ago

          I honestly haven’t had much of an issue. I only send emails to things like medical providers, and I use an SMTP forwarding service to prevent those emails getting bounced back.

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      7 months ago

      “But my mails are here in the browser!”

      “All the spam is annoying! Can you do something about it?”

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        7 months ago

        I want to do it and habe been offputting it because im worried that im gonna fuck something up and bc i dont really know how

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      7 months ago

      Same. 1€ a month for some local service, hosted in my country, which means they have to abide by EU laws. And also I can actually use their calendar with Thunderbird. Damn google calendar stopped working every update and needed an addon to work in the first place.