An email service that uses addresses like yourname-appname@port87.com to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like yourname-friends@port87.com.
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address (yourname@port87.com), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.
Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.
Google doesn’t even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.
So if you have abraxas@gmail.com and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using whatever@abraxas.me you want. There’s no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? lemmyworld@abraxas.me will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)
Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.
indeed. It comes in as reallyshadywebsite@squidspinachfootball.xyz, so not only can you easily filter/label them, but you can immediately tell who had a security breach and/or sold your email.
I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:
Receive unlimited mail, 500MB storage: Free
Send unlimited mail*: $1/month
2GB extra: $2/month
10GB extra: $6/month
20GB extra: $10/month
100GB extra: $20/month
1TB extra: $40/month
There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:
Native mobile app (right now it’s a PWA): Free
IMAP/SMTP/CardDAV for third party clients and to import/export/sync: Undetermined price
Custom domain with unlimited addresses: Undetermined price
Additional users for you custom domain: Undetermined price
The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.
I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)
PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.
I spend a lot of time trying to figure out obscure undocumented data formats and cyberchef is absolutely incredible for that. Here’s a fun little preview of what that looks like
Audiobookbay.nl works pretty well (best public tracker I think) for audiobooks but the absolute best source for audiobooks and ebooks is the private tracker myanonamouse.net
The only way I see to fix this issue is to use a different search engine which doesn’t rely on google or bing. I only know of one which is brave but please let me know if there are any others.
The reason I say this is because it will increase competition and is better for users.
This guy is gold! I’ve bought a few pairs of cheap headphones after reading his comparisons and reviews, and all have been spot on! He tests on both iPhone and Android, and he explains the differences in sound quality if very approachable and concise ways. When I need headphones again, his site is my no 1 stop.
privacyguides.org has a ton of awesome tips on how to navigate technology these days without becoming a walking data point for everything you have contact with.
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