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$99/year? They are targeting an extremely small market. I can get Fastmail for a fraction of that amount, and I don't see much of an advantage with this - and I'm one of the few willing to pay for something I get elsewhere for free.

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I mean, "a fraction" is "half" in this case, which is actually pretty close to par in my mind. And that's what I pay for one address for a year; so if this is more addresses and more domains at better scaling prices, that's quite interesting.

Fastmail lets you use all the domains you want with one account, it just routes the messages to a different folder.

Also, remember the $99 per year is AFTER shelling out $500 for the device.

Until the device fails and you need to replace.

I pay ~$5/mo for a VPS that I have root on and host E-mail for an unlimited number of domains, plus I can use it for other purposes: light duty web site, VPN, etc.

I don’t seem to be the target market for this but I wish them well—we need more effort towards re-decentralizing E-mail.

> "a fraction" is "half" in this case, which is actually pretty close to par in my mind

??! No, half is half. Strange response. It's $50/year, and the $50/year charged by Fastmail is already quite steep for email.

hey bachmeir - our Helm servers do not limit the number of users. For a family, for example, you'll typically come out ahead on cost with our product.

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