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by willbrowning 7y ago
That's an interesting story and has some good points. My main concern would be the fact that complete email solutions such as Tutanota, Posteo are very cheap at 1 euro a month or so. So I'm not sure users who aren't as concer
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Amazing, thank you! I use it myself alongside Tutanota, great combination!
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Haha, awesome!
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Cheers! Nginx access and error logs are kept which do record IP addresses. Default log settings are used for Postfix. The logs are rotated daily using logrotate and retained for 7 days, old log files are deleted. Log files are only ever use
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Thank you! The help centre is still a real work in progress, I have a load more help articles I need to add there. I based the help centre on Mullvad's as I really love how simple and easy to navigate their website is!
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Thanks, to be honest the expenses for the service are quite low. It is just the server and domain costs at the moment and of course my time. You're right as it scales I may need to upgrade the server etc. but I think it will cover its
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Awesome, thanks! I did start the service with just the Pro plan at $36 per year or $4 per month. I received quite a lot of feedback from users asking for a cheaper plan that would allow 1 custom domain etc. which is why I eventually added t
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Thanks a lot! I've tried to be as transparent as possible along the way. That would be great, it is valid until midnight this Friday PST. The coupon code is BLACKFRIDAY50
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Thank you very much. When you create an account there is a page called domains, it provides instructions on how to add the correct MX record to your custom domain in order to allow the server to handle inbound emails.
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Each time a new email is received Postfix calculates its size in bytes. A column in the database is then simply incremented by that size when the email is forwarded or a reply is sent. At the start of each month your bandwidth is reset to 0
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Thank you! I've got a long to do list with more to come.
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by willbrowning 7y ago
That's a fair point. I've already added an additional domain to the site and will add more that look "generic" soon too.
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by willbrowning 7y ago
Hi all, creator here. I've been working on AnonAddy (short for anonymous email address) for the past few months with the vision of creating a privacy friendly, transparent and easy to use email forwarding service. The web app is built
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Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service(anonaddy.com)
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Why you should use a different email address for every site(anonaddy.com)
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