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Email is increasingly difficult to do yourself with the proliferation of anti-spam and anti-malware protection, combined with consolidated usage of SaaS apps fo
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Email is increasingly difficult to do yourself with the proliferation of anti-spam and anti-malware protection, combined with consolidated usage of SaaS apps for email across the board. Most of the IP address space in AWS and Azure is blacklisted by spam filters (as is customer IP space from most ISPs if they don’t already filter SMTP traffic), so unless you want to roll the dice on config settings for everyone you send email to, you’re generally going to need an authenticated relay for outgoing mail — and your best option will be one of the big cloud providers.
If you want a secure mail service that won’t read your email, try ProtonMail.
- derekp7 5y agoYou can set up an email server to receive mail typically (assuming your ISP doesn't block it). For outbound mail, you can create a dedicated regular gmail address, and instruct it to accept sending emails out with an alternate email/domain in the From address and set up all outbound mail to route through that. (I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like all the pieces are there under the "send mail as" setting on gmail).
- Denatonium 5y agoThis works, but when people receive your emails, they'll show up as "From: yourname@example.com via gmail.com"
- alanfranz 5y agoYou can setup an external smtp to prevent that, using amazon ses or another provider (eg where you register your domain, like gandi)
- seanw444 5y agoEveryone is so attached to big tech on all levels that no matter how hard you try to escape, it all comes right back. You can set up your own mail server and still get screwed over. So sick of it. I'd honestly rather roll the dice on emails than contribute to the monopolization.
- rkagerer 5y agoIf you want something lightweight try SpamHero. Not quite as good as Postini was, but unfortunately Google bought and killed the latter.
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