Fuck AI

Thanks, I'll look into it!

From a quick glance I wanted to flag up that this form is very hard to read with black on dark grey:

Would using your own domain name suffer from the reputation issue that would mean that you can't really send very much of anything, since it would be eaten by the spam filtering?

That’s correct. For a small email service that doesn’t use something like Mailchimp to send emails, the reputation of my IP addresses can make or break my service. Basically, Google and Microsoft can kill Port87 if they want to by not accepting my outbound emails, and sending spam is the best way to make them want to.

One of my main philosophies is that Port87 should be as independent a service as it can be, so I try very hard to not rely on third parties for anything I can avoid. Mailchimp or SendGrid would be great to offload my outbound emails to, but that would make the service less independent. So the only outside services I currently rely on are the payment provider (Stripe) and the ISP (Frontier). I host on my own hardware in my own office, so outbound emails come from my own IP addresses.

What if we can use AI to explain why your recent purchases are the reason your bills are late?

Yeah, Port87 can give you that. That’s basically what it does by default with the “Aggbox”. You pick what labels go in there, then you see them when you go to the app. I’d imagine you, like most of us, don’t care about emails from Netflix or Google, so you don’t have to put those labels in your Aggbox. But they are in their labels if you ever need them.

Thanks for the link and the list! I'm def leaning towards Tutamail.

Been a huge fan of Tuta. Barebones but good enough!

I made the switch a couple of years ago and Tuta is flawless even on Linux. Unless they do something stupid I will be sticking with them.

I tried Tutamail for a while and it's not bad... just really clunky. It would have been solid fifteen years ago.

I've been trying to find something better than Fastmail, but it's just so good.

Also a great example of a service "mired in controversy". Some (including me) consider those controversies bad enough to avoid them completely. The CEO openly agreeing with and actually supporting Trump is just one of the more egregious ones.

For EU citizens it's also noteworthy that it isn't actually hosted in the EU (but Switzerland).

Edit: just to be clear, obviously a lot better than Google. But which service these days isn't? So that's a pretty low bar. So why settle for that instead of picking something without all the baggage?