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Yandex.Mail provides custom domain E-Mails for free, the only large company to do so and not to mention how good it is.
by zuron7 10y ago
Yandex.Mail provides custom domain E-Mails for free, the only large company to do so and not to mention how good it is.
- SXX 10y agoIt's can be also used as DDNS with simple API.
- xienze 10y agoRussian email hosting. What could go wrong?
- ansgri 10y agoMail delivery delays can get huge, that's what's wrong with Yandex. Mail routinely takes 10-20 minutes to arrive.
- ivlad 10y agoI worked for Yandex. AMA. Will not violate NDA, obviously.
- technion 10y agoAre you able to say anything about the scale of their hardware? It says "3x hardware" but I'd love to hear how big that ends up being, at either the Oracle or Postgresql size.
- d0uble 10y agoHardware for Oracle and PostgreSQL are different. We used to have big boxes for Oracle with lots of memory, SSD disks and rigid economy of CPU (small number of very fast cores because Oracle is licenced per CPU cores). And that hardware was really efficiently used in consuming nearly all system resources (CPU, I/O, disk space and even network bandwidth). For PostgreSQL we use commodity servers and right now they are not really efficiently balanced (i.e. on some hosts we don't have enough disk space but other resources are utilized ~30%). So we are working on improving that. But I can't tell you exact numbers of hosts for Oracle or PostgreSQL (which is actually ~x3 from Oracle hosts number :)).
- edge17 10y agocompared to what?
- nickpsecurity 10y agoA place that wasn't a police state of sorts with increasingly draconian legislation. Opposite end would possibly be Swiss or Icelanfic jurisdiction. I'd never use an email service in Russia. I have an untrusted, Gmail account for availability purposes. Confidential mail still encrypted and preferrably sent through Swiss account. Thinking about switching untrusted one over to Fastmail. Still surveillance state but less surveillance and supposedly good uptime.
- deepwave 10y agoFastmail has been my go-to for almost as long as they have existed--almost 15 years. There is NOTHING better in my estimation and I've used them all before--free and paid. Rob and the Fastmail team are most likely the best in the world at what they do, and as an IT guy with decades of experience, I don't say that lightly. They have more than earned my shekels every year. Give them a go... you will be very pleasantly surprised.
- ivlad 10y agoI recall a story about Swiss company, Crypto AG: http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/ http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI've told the story many times. It can happen anywhere. It was an unscrupulous group of people in it solely for the money primarily selling to people like NSA. The target wasn't popular with anyone. Guy running it was offered some cash to sabotage the equipment of that target to help a major customer. "Happy to oblige!" My endorsement of Switzerland is about legal jurisdiction, culture that respects privacy, and stability. Well-intentioned owners won't be forced to do the kinds of things we see in America or Russia. At worst, it will be something selective with a warrant. A nice foundation to build on.
- LeonM 10y agoAmerican email hosting, what could go wrong?
- the_common_man 10y agoYeah, I always find it amusing when people find russia and china on a lower moral/ethical ground when everything on american soil is equally watched and processed. if not by nsa, it's for ads.
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- IncRnd 10y agoIt isn't exactly a moral point but the recognition of two items: 1) the large number of people who are employed at cyber crime in certain parts of the world 2) the recognition that certain countries have a vested interest in reading the emails of the people of certain other countries Certain people in various countries could make a similar argument about US hosted emails. This is how the world works.
- healthnutter 10y agoAsking seriously, but isn't Russia fundamentally closer to a kleptocracy? Dishonesty is apparently more pervasive and built in to their culture. From my understanding, bribe culture and cheating are an accepted norm. Not to say these characteristics do not exist in America, just not anywhere to the same extent?
- mablap 10y agoIf you use PGP it doesn't matter where you host, right? If you're concerned about local officials having access to your data I don't think it's much worse than Google scanning my email to better target ads or "just to remind me" that I'm going at X or Y place in Z days.
- gleenn 10y agoFrom a purely technical and tinfoil-hat point of view, they'd have meta-data about your emailing habits. They wouldn't be able to read the mail for your encrypted traffic, but lets be honest - most people don't. So that mail could be read too.
- mempko 10y agoThink about it this way. If you live in US and use gmaik, NSA spies on you and you have potential to be put away in terrorist military prison. If you live in US but use yandex, Russian gov spies on you but you live in USA and therefore cannot be arrested as easily.
- DanBC 10y agoRussia's extensive use of online trolling means I'd be as worried about their government surveilling me. http://www.stratcomcoe.org/internet-trolling-hybrid-warfare-tool-case-latvia-0 http://www.stratcomcoe.org/internet-trolling-hybrid-warfare-...
- Jerry2 10y agoIf your mail is in Russia, FBI/DOJ will have an impossible time getting a warrant. Compare that to the US/EU mail hosters who willfully give your mail away.
- homero 10y agoExactly I use it often
- homero 10y agoI actually like it, sure they read it but they can't get me and they won't allow usa snooping. I use it a lot
- blacksmith_tb 10y agoI feel the same way about Chinese IoT vendors - the cheap Xiaomi 'Little Ants' webcam that watches packages get dropped off on my front porch is routing notifications (and video, on demand - it stores stuff locally on an mSD) to servers in China, but it seems extremely unlikely that the PRC government has any interest in it, or use for it; and I doubt Xiaomi would bother giving it up to any other government.
- franole 10y agoGood tip. I recently did some research on email with free custom domain (well, really just googling and visit the first results) and did not know about them. So for the moment I'm using zoho.com.
- dubcanada 10y agozoho offers free custom domain email hosting. It's also surprisingly good, the UI/integration between the pieces is very well done.
- agopaul 10y agoZoho is OK, but I wouldn't call it great. Huge delays happen from time to time.
- gnomeoss 10y agoZoho has the worst email service I ever tried. Even if I whitelist some email addresses and mark them dozen of times as not spam, it still put them into the spam list...
- pomfpomfpomf3 10y agoYandex offers unlimited users (up to 1000, then you have to contact them and I guess they will allow more) and claims unlimited storage, zoho free tier is 25 users and 5 GB storage/user.
- tombrossman 10y agoAny idea if they support email 'distribution lists' or similar? I want something like test@example.com > delivered to list of users with a mix of email addresses at other domains. Gandi.net does this now (they call it a forwarding only address) but their included mailbox size is 1GB. I've got a non-profit domain that needs more email storage. I tried Zoho last year after hearing multiple recommendations and it was nothing but problems with spam coming in and my outbound emails being incorrectly marked as spam. I even had SPF + DKIM tested and working from the start! Not sure I would try them again after that experience.
- smallet 10y agohttps://yandex.com/support/domain/additional/maillists.xml https://yandex.com/support/domain/additional/maillists.xml Doesn't seem to support addresses from other domains though.