E-mail providers and tools (for ad surveillance rebels/resistors) 📧

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Chatter about using email in a liberated way. E-mail was working well enough before Microsoft and Google turned it into a shit-show of surveillance, restrictions, and dysfunction.

Self hosting email chatter is welcome as well as chatter about good providers.

This community is /not/ about supporting gmail or outlook users getting connected to those oppressive forces. But everyone in the relatively liberated world are welcome here, even if to deal with connecting to other people who are trapped inside those walled gardens.

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Setting up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd (poolp.org)
submitted 2 months ago by tux0r@feddit.org to c/email@lemmy.sdf.org
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It's what I do

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onion.email -- but no onion? wtf. (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/email@lemmy.sdf.org
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Just encountred https://onion.email/. Seems like they hijacked a catchy name to use for false advertising? I see no onion capability there.

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onionmail.info GONE! (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/email@lemmy.sdf.org
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/34988139

WTF happened to onionmail.info?

So disturbing.

It was such a great resource for email. It was a quite unique infrastructure that gave a bit of freedom and privacy unlike any other email provider.

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Email on your own domain is easy (youtu.be)
submitted 2 months ago by hperrin@lemmy.ca to c/email@lemmy.sdf.org
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Does Microsoft impose a CAPTCHA on admins of small email services before accepting email, like Google does? (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by evenwicht@lemmy.sdf.org to c/email@lemmy.sdf.org
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The rumor I heard was that if you operate a small email service and need to get Google to recognise your server and accept inbound email for gmail recipients, admins of those services must do a dance and go through various hoops like solving a CAPTCHA before their server’s IP address is whitelisted. (Is that true? I have never tried.)

Question 1:
Does Microsoft do the same thing as Google? Are there any hoops or obsticles to getting MS’s mail server to accept mail from a new mail server?

Question 2:
If an admin of a small service decides to do the same, and force sending servers to solve a CAPTCHA to get whitelisted, what does Microsoft do when their server encounters that barrier? Is there reciprocity, or does MS just do the bullying that it does and simply let outbound MS email get blocked at the destination?

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onionmail.org — I thought it was a great option, but acct was spontaneously deleted (lemmy.sdf.org)
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The onionmail.org service is one of a kind. Although there are a few liberated email services that offer onion accounts or onion access to clearnet addressed inboxes, onionmail.org is the only one that will give you an onion email address which has no clearnet alias.

This is very useful because it’s an email address that you can distribute as an email address, but Microsoft and Google users have no hope of sending you messages. It’s an escape from ad surveillance but while still giving the other person a feasible means to reach you through a better email provider.

The problem is that they falsely advertise the account limitations. You distribute your onion email address to people, then a few months later they cut you off.

Question: is onionmail.org really one of a kind? Is there anything else gives you an onion email address with no clearnet alias?