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Would it be frowned upon if I use this thread as an excuse to shamelessly advertise TricepMail.com? It's a better approach to catch all email that I've been wor

by loh 6y ago

Would it be frowned upon if I use this thread as an excuse to shamelessly advertise TricepMail.com? It's a better approach to catch all email that I've been working on. MVP released last month with polish and feature additions (but not feature creep) still in the works.

geek_at 6y ago
Funny I made an open source project for the exact same thing with API and even RSS access :D https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail
- mtnGoat 6y ago
  Looks like a cool project, maybe include setup instructions that don't require docker?
- loh 6y ago
  Looks good! Does the interface organize mail by mailbox? Can you also easily send email from any mailbox? And is there blocking/accepting from specific senders? In TricepMail, messages to e.g. hn@loh.tricepmail.com versus ignore@loh.tricepmail.com are separated in the UI, and you can configure the "ignore" mailbox to block all incoming messages. You can also setup mailboxes that accept messages from specific senders only. TricepMail also has everything (and a bit more) that you've listed under "Web interface". TricepMail isn't meant to be used for trash/throwaways, but you can use it for that if you want. It's meant to compartmentalize real email for the demands of today, especially for things like the FCC requiring email addresses on applications. For example, I would consider incoming email from the FCC to be extremely important (definitely not trash), but I wouldn't want to use my usual personal email address for this. I would still want to see it without going through all the hassle of setting up a separate email server and/or using a separate email client. I want everything in one simple, organized place. This is why I created TricepMail. I've starred your repo. Looking forward to seeing its progress. :)
GoblinSlayer 6y ago
If I know one valid address, say, reddit@john.tricepmail.com and send to random address N9CN20UQvT@john.tricepmail.com, will it be delivered as legitimate?
- loh 6y ago
  Yes.
tzs 6y ago
It's not clear to me from your site what advantages your service has over already existing well-known services. Most people already have an email solution, so I think you need to make it clear how yours is different and why that might be better for them. For example, I've already got Fastmail's standard plan ($5/month if purchased on a month-to-month basis). That allows 600 aliases, 8000 receives per day, 8000 sends per day, 30 GB email storage, 10 GB file storage. Your $5/month plan has bigger limits for some of those, and smaller limits for some of those, but I'm not seeing anything that tells me I might find your service useful either in addition to or as a replacement for Fastmail. For email, I think a lot of people are going to lean toward an established provider in the hopes that this increases the chances of them being around long term.
- loh 6y ago
  Thanks for the very helpful feedback. Last time I used Fastmail, I had to manually setup the aliases in advance, before they could receive mail. It also isn't possible to send from aliases on Fastmail. I find Fastmail's UI/UX to be too cumbersome for what I want to do with my email. Once I've added a few more key features and polished the UI a bit, I am planning on revamping the landing page to make things clearer. Thanks again for the feedback. It's incredibly useful.

by loh 6y ago

geek_at 6y ago

Funny I made an open source project for the exact same thing with API and even RSS access :D https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail

mtnGoat 6y ago
Looks like a cool project, maybe include setup instructions that don't require docker?
loh 6y ago
Looks good! Does the interface organize mail by mailbox? Can you also easily send email from any mailbox? And is there blocking/accepting from specific senders? In TricepMail, messages to e.g. hn@loh.tricepmail.com versus ignore@loh.tricepmail.com are separated in the UI, and you can configure the "ignore" mailbox to block all incoming messages. You can also setup mailboxes that accept messages from specific senders only. TricepMail also has everything (and a bit more) that you've listed under "Web interface". TricepMail isn't meant to be used for trash/throwaways, but you can use it for that if you want. It's meant to compartmentalize real email for the demands of today, especially for things like the FCC requiring email addresses on applications. For example, I would consider incoming email from the FCC to be extremely important (definitely not trash), but I wouldn't want to use my usual personal email address for this. I would still want to see it without going through all the hassle of setting up a separate email server and/or using a separate email client. I want everything in one simple, organized place. This is why I created TricepMail. I've starred your repo. Looking forward to seeing its progress. :)

GoblinSlayer 6y ago

If I know one valid address, say, reddit@john.tricepmail.com and send to random address N9CN20UQvT@john.tricepmail.com, will it be delivered as legitimate?

loh 6y ago
Yes.

tzs 6y ago

It's not clear to me from your site what advantages your service has over already existing well-known services. Most people already have an email solution, so I think you need to make it clear how yours is different and why that might be better for them. For example, I've already got Fastmail's standard plan ($5/month if purchased on a month-to-month basis). That allows 600 aliases, 8000 receives per day, 8000 sends per day, 30 GB email storage, 10 GB file storage. Your $5/month plan has bigger limits for some of those, and smaller limits for some of those, but I'm not seeing anything that tells me I might find your service useful either in addition to or as a replacement for Fastmail. For email, I think a lot of people are going to lean toward an established provider in the hopes that this increases the chances of them being around long term.

loh 6y ago
Thanks for the very helpful feedback. Last time I used Fastmail, I had to manually setup the aliases in advance, before they could receive mail. It also isn't possible to send from aliases on Fastmail. I find Fastmail's UI/UX to be too cumbersome for what I want to do with my email. Once I've added a few more key features and polished the UI a bit, I am planning on revamping the landing page to make things clearer. Thanks again for the feedback. It's incredibly useful.