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Mailfence: Secure and private email service

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Web developers everywhere: PLEASE use the accept-language header's highest priority language.

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8,pt-BR;q=0.7,pt;q=0.6

Also don't cookie a locale. It is provided on every request to the server. Not only did I have to delete my languages, but then all of my cookies for that site in order to view it in English.

Wow, super nice feature: https://blog.mailfence.com/plus-addressing-to-track-spammers...

I'd be really tempted to switch once my Fastmail contract runs out. Except I'm experiencing so little spam, so I'm so satisfied. But all their other features are so cool too. What to do, what to do? :)

My Fastmail annual account ends/renews next month. I may just have to use this. I’ve had a few problems with Fastmail sending IP’s being reported as throwaway/disposable addresses

Fastmail has also always had plus addressing, as well as subdomain addressing which is even nicer!

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/addressing.html

Well, you just made my day.... :) Thanks so much. Had to do more than upvote this one.

Yeah, I was about to say... Fastmail's version of this feature is much nicer, and very useful.

This works with Gmail too.

I've stopped using + addressing because it's been more trouble than it's worth. It's supported in gmail, and: Gmail's anti-spam catches basically all my spam, a surprising number of places don't support + extensions (the Dell support guy told me "I can't put in a +, I'll just remove the "+dell" at the end of your address), and also a surprising number of places freak out at these addresses ("Why does your e-mail address contain MY company name?").

I used to do it all the time, but with "-" instead of "+". It was quite effective when I was running my own mail server and despite my best attempts, spam was quite a problem. I had anti-spam set up (greylist, spamassassin, RBLs, my own custom blacklists). I'd get a dozen or more spams a day anyway.

Fastmail has aliases if you use your own domain, and you can combine with + adressing: alias amazon@yourdns.com to username+amazon@fastmail.com and then all the emails are going into your folder amazon :)

That's actually supported by a lot of providers (not Outlook of course...) although a lot of websites unlegitelly refuse addresses with a + in their forms. More : https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addr...

Looks quite interesting, and the FAQ also seems comprehensive (I skimmed through it). The fact that it’s been around since 1999 gives some additional comfort.

For my usage and needs, where I need a few mailboxes as well as more than just a couple of aliases per mailbox, I’d consider trying it and moving to a paid subscription if/when the following are done:

1. Make IMAP and SMTP available for the free tier so that people can test it well before upgrading. Plus, providing a way to easily move out is something I consider an important requirement.

2. Bring in a new low price tier at EUR 1 per month with a slightly lower storage, alias and other quotas. This would make it competitive with Posteo.de, which is my current favorite paid email service. Fastmail becomes expensive very quickly for someone who needs multiple mailboxes.

3. Bonus: The automated import tool for Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail mentioned as coming in the future would be very nice to have.

Why should I use this over ProtonMail or Fastmail?

Looks nice, every easy to remember username is still available too.

A little odd that easy names are still available ?

> We launched in 1999 and we are in for the long run.

Could've been deleted due to long periods of inactivity.

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