> The world is changing, and we need to adapt and understand it.
fastmail: read my lips: I pay you because you offer a traditional email service
if you add a single AI feature I will return to self hosting
fastmail: read my lips: I pay you because you offer a traditional email service
if you add a single AI feature I will return to self hosting
> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC.
Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?
I switched to hosted email and all my delivery issues were gone.
Also, my experience with self-hosting email is that if you get people to email you first from their domain, and you reply to them, then you are not going to be blocked. Of course, this won't work if you send a lot of cold emails.
>Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?
That's true. I have a Class C IP range and a domain registered for 30 years and yet Gmail still started ignoring my email server a couple of years ago...
Before you start sending email, use mail-tester.com to check that DKIM is correctly set up and that your IP is not blacklisted.
I use everything I can to block trackers, spy ware, etc and have never been "Cloudflare blocked".
I'm running MX Linux, Arch Linux, and FreeBSD, and usually use Seamonkey or Pale Moon, and if I absolutely have to I use Thorium.
Some websites using Cloudflare services, or other similar services, first load a landing page, historically with a captcha checkbox to verify that I'm human that would let me through, after completing. More recently, it'll outright say that I am denied access, or when I check the box it switches to a throbber that spins indefinitely, or it unchecks itself.
Some web pages, like eBay, will let me through initially, then at some point all tabs I have open will simultaneously switch to an unpassable captcha.
Hopefully "product + AI" doesn't get us as big of a crash as "product + Internet" did in 2000. Pointing it out probably helps.
I am attempting to dogfood it, as I am pretty close to the target audience. I, a dev, get a bug report "X doesn't work". I have never heard of "X". Ask the AI assistant instead of Googling it or asking on Slack.
Google's AI overview is basically always better (and delivered sooner) than our own proprietary AI assistant.
> Add a user to your billing plan to give someone their own Fastmail Inbox and login. Build your team, be it work or family, and share calendars, contacts and more. Give users extra addresses for free
The way my UX works is I can add users but they always have to have their own paid plan. Makes sense for heavy email users but not so much for my partner or our kids. I was hoping there was a 5 accounts for the price of 3 thing like Spotify et al do.