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OnePoundEmail - The One Where The Logo Changes

MichaelCee — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:29:08 +0000

The old comic sans logo had a lot of haters.. I can't think why So there's been a revamp hand-drawn by the missus.

Also spent a couple of bucks on a video ad on Fiverr.. just for research purposes. Take a look!

If you didn't know, OnePoundEmail is an email hosting provider that uses DirectAdmin to provide and power services through the widely loved MXroute infrastructure. Take a look at the plans below.

OnePoundEmail - £1.00/month

3GB Email Storage
Unlimited Domains
DirectAdmin Panel
Crossbox Webmail
Roundcube Webmail
Snappy Webmail
IMAPSync Migration Tool

https://my.onepoundemail.co.uk/order/config/index/email-hosting/?group_id=2&pricing_id=73

Standard Email - £2.50/month

10GB Email Storage
Unlimited Domains
DirectAdmin Panel
Crossbox Webmail
Roundcube Webmail
Snappy Webmail
IMAPSync Migration Tool

https://my.onepoundemail.co.uk/order/config/index/email-hosting/?group_id=2&pricing_id=77

Also from the Refugee thread I created a costs transparency table:

P.S Refugee plans still available.

Cheers!

Free Email and 10 GB Storage Drive

KidRock — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:36:07 +0000

Skiff is an open-source, fully end-to-end encrypted and decentralized collaboration platform, externally audited by third-party. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Skiff has raised $23 million in funding and is advised by leaders in the privacy space including Signal CTO. It provides

Skiff Mail - An end-to-end encrypted inbox that keeps your messages private to you. Add multiple aliases, use custom domains, and import existing email for an even more powerful inbox. Easily migrate from Gmail, ProtonMail or Outlook.
Skiff Pages - Write, share, and upload end-to-end encrypted documents and notes on Skiff Pages. Jump directly from your inbox to a full collaborative suite, including powerful tables, in-page embeds, and real-time collaboration.
Skiff Drive - Upload, import, and share end-to-end encrypted files of all types. With 10 GB of free storage, Skiff helps you transition from other online cloud storage providers to a fully private storage platform, where your data is owned by you. Users have the option to store all Skiff Drive files on a centralized server on the cloud or the IPFS decentralized network
Skiff Calendar - Protects your personal and professional life by keeping your schedule end-to-end encrypted.

Here's the ref link which gives extra 500 MB storage - https://app.skiff.com/signup?mail&referral=skiffor

Non-ref link - https://skiff.com/

Launching OnePoundEmail to Sell MXroute Email Hosting

MichaelCee — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:22:55 +0000

Hey LES friends, I'm launching a new project and want to let you all know about it.

I'm launching OnePoundEmail.co.uk - As many of you know, I enjoy being in the hosting industry, using DirectAdmin and providing services and support to other people in the community. But as you may also know I sold my last hosting business a year ago because of my unhappiness in the industry at that time. I made a lot of mistakes in the past with my businesses and I learned a lot. I will be keeping OnePoundEmail simple, this is a sole-trader brand and not a company, and I don't have any intention to try and build a company at the moment nor to expand and try and build a global empire. My pricing is affordable but not too affordable that it takes the piss out of my provider. Some plans might be cheaper directly, some plans might be cheaper via me but ultimately I plan to provide added value to stand out in the crowd.

Have a look at the website here: https://onepoundemail.co.uk

The Basics:

DirectAdmin based email hosting
SMTP, IMAP and POP3 protocols
Custom SpamAssassin ruleset
Multiple premium webmail options
Mobile apps for iOS/Android
Highly reputable IP addresses
300 outbound limit per hour
Server located in Germany, EU

£1.00 per month - Order Here

£2.50 per month - Order Here

Short FAQ:

Accepted Payment Methods?
I accept PayPal, Stripe, UK Bank Transfer and manual Cryptocurrency payments.

Refund Policy?
You can request a refund within 14 days if you don't violate the Terms of Service.

Bulk Marketing Emails?
No. Bulk marketing emails are not allowed regardless of opt-in status.

Thanks for reading!

Important Links:
OnePoundEmail
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy
Knowledgebase
Support

DuckDuckGo email open beta

vyas — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:14:23 +0000

Looks like it is open for all now.

“ We’ve removed the waitlist for DuckDuckGo Email Protection, making the beta open for everyone to try. Get your @duck.com email address today!”

https://www.spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-protection/

Save a Pretty Penny with OnePoundEmail This September

MichaelCee — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:19:07 +0000

My days of scraping the bottom of the discount barrel are over but that doesn't mean you can't still save a pretty penny.

For the rest of September OnePoundEmail becomes.. 99pEmail!

The Basics:

DirectAdmin based email hosting
SMTP, IMAP and POP3 protocols
Custom SpamAssassin ruleset
Multiple premium webmail options
Highly reputable IP addresses
300 outbound limit per hour
Server located in Germany, EU

Click here to order and use the code "99p" at checkout!

This offer is recurring and who knows where modern medicine will take us - you could save millions in a few centuries time.

Also, you can now order additional storage at £0.30p/month for 1GB!

Cheers for indulging me in my sillyness.

Important Links:
OnePoundEmail
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy
Knowledgebase
Support

Plesk Bullk Email account creation script

hostarts — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:02:03 +0000

Hi,

I found this could be helpful for many people looking to create multiple Plesk email accounts especially since we are getting a lot of migrations from the old Google Gsuite Legacy edition.

The script reuires a txt file where the emails must be listed 1 per line :

#!/bin/bash
while read user
do
plesk bin mail --create $user -passwd 12345@@ -mbox_quota 25000M -mailbox true
done < userfile.txt

The script may fail if your secuity standards for your passwords are too high so you may edit that 12345
@ if needed.

By default i have aligned this at 15000M or 15G to equal Legacy Google Workspace accounts.

I hope this helps

drServer ||| Shared Hosting, VPS & Dedicated Servers, FREE DNS Hosting and more...

Radi — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 22:34:31 +0000

Hello friends,

We are back with our offer table with current stock.

Starting with the shared hosting, I’d like to talk about the…
…main features each account comes with:
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HIGH Clock CPU
ECC Registered RAM
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PHP Version: All major selectable
Analytics: Yes
Free enterprise SSL: No
Free domain name / domain transfer: No
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Auto Installer: Softaculous
Mail Relay: MailChannels
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Backup: Automated incremental
Network Bandwidth: 1 TB
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Email Accounts: Unlimited
Email relay limit: 300 / hr
FTP Accounts: Unlimited
MySQL Databases: Unlimited
NodeJS Support: Yes
Python Support: Yes
Ruby Support: Yes
Proxy: Nginx
HHVM Support: Yes
PHP Version: All major selectable
Analytics: Yes
Free enterprise SSL: No
Free domain name / domain transfer: No
Panel Type: cPanel
Auto Installer: Softaculous
Mail Relay: MailChannels
DC Location: Dallas - TX - USA
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Price(Yearly): 30.00$/year
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We also offer a Zimbra-based email service
which comes with the features listed.
Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Nice Webmail Client
The option to use a desktop app
Free DNS hosting available for easy setup.
MailChannels relay, to ensure deliverability of your emails
POP/SMTP/IMAP. to make your email accessible by your favourite mail client
Host as much domains as needed
Multiple accounts
White-labelled WebMail

Moving on to the offer.

Zimbra 10 Pack
10 Email Accounts
10 GB Storage
Unlimited Domains
MailChannels Relay
Online Webmail
Zimbra Desktop
Price: $5.00/month or $50/year
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All servers come with 1 IPv4 unlesss otherwise stated.
Custom ISO are possible for VPS only a quick ticket.
Free DNS hosting available with all VPS.
Free 1x manual snapshot available with all VPS.
IPv6 right now is available in Dallas.
IPv4 rDNS is only available for Dallas.
The VPS in this offer are not managed, however we can provide you with application support and install the applications, you require for FREE.
All VPS are hosted on powerful E5 nodes with minimum of 128 GB RAM and SSDs in RAID-10.

and now the offers…

KVM-XS
2 CPU Cores
2048 MB RAM
45 GB SSD Disk
2048 GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
KVM
Linux/Windows
Free DNS Hosting included
Free 1 manual snapshot included
Location: Dallas
Price: $5/mo or $50/year
Promocode(Monthly): 8RKY9I70ED1JI-VPS2GB-M
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KVM-S
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4096 MB RAM
90 GB SSD Disk
4096 GB Bandwidth
1 IPv4
/64 IPv6
KVM
Linux/Windows
Free DNS Hosting included
Free 1 manual snapshot included
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Powered by PowerDNS and HostBill
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Easy and centralized management
DNSSEC
and more...

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DNS-1
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PowerDNS
Dallas Location of Nameservers
White-Label NS Domain
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Special Offer: Completely free forever for 1 zone. Use it to test it - we can offer a potential discount for people who help us iron out any issues with the system. We would love to get some feedback on it.

If you wish to get more zones, we offer them as premium plan.

DNS-5
DNS Hosting for 5 zones
PowerDNS
Dallas Location of Nameservers
White-Label NS Domain
Price: $1/month
Link: https://portal.drserver.net/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=154

More options for DNS hosting are available here: https://portal.drserver.net/?/cart/dns/ .

Last, but not by importance: THE DEDICATED SERVERS.

Dedicated Servers Features
All offers come with 1 IPv4 unless otherwise stated.
rDNS is available.
Free DNS Hosting for 10 zones available with every server.
Custom ISO are possible through a quick ticket. We can load any OS you need. This does not apply to NO-IPMI servers.
Bandwidth is upgrade-able to 1 Gbps for free(on non-Atom servers only). Ticket us for more details.
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RAM: 8 GB DDR3
Disk: 1 x 240 GB SSD
Bandwidth: 100 Mbps
1 IPv4
NO-IPMI, you are limited to the OS, which are available on order form
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About us:
drServer started offering service around November of 2013, so we are 8 years old now. The doctor is still here and still stronger than ever and can satisfy all your hosting needs.

Useful Links Section:
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AUP: https://drserver.net/aup.php?pk_campaign=LES
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FAQ:
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Because most gameservers generally attract (D)DoS attacks, we currently do not allow them on our network.
This also applies to voiceservers such as Teamspeak and Mumble.
Q: Can I run a VPN?
Private VPN servers are perfectly fine with us. Public ones, however, are not.
Q: What’s your refund policy?
We do have a 30-day refund policy for your first service with us.
Q: What payment methods are accepted?
We accept payments via PayPal.
Q: Do you have a test IP/file?
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Q: Do you offer instant setup?
Servers on this offer are instantly provisioned, subject to stock availability.
Q: Why my order was marked as fraud?
The usual reason for an order, being marked as fraud is if you place it from a VPN/Server IP. We do not allow such kind of orders, so if you intend to order with a VPN, it will be marked as fraud. If you are on vacation/holiday and live in a different country, please contact us prior to ordering.

Network Info:
Dallas, USA
Test IPv4: 192.138.210.63
Test IPv6: 2604:0880:0052:0000:0000:0000:01e5:657b
Test file(IPv4): http://lg-dal.ipv4.drserver.net/100MB.test
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All network ports have DDoS protection. Our bandwidth mix includes: Level 3, Cogent, Hurricane Electric, GTT, Telia, Equinix Peering, DECIX Peering, Private Peering.

Thanks for reading the thread! Please let us know if you have any questions!

Have a good day!

drServer ||| Shared Hosting, VPS & Dedicated Servers, FREE DNS Hosting and more...

Radi — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:02:54 +0000

Hello friends,

We are back with our offer table with current stock.

Without further delay, straight to the offer:

Extra Deal: Try the plan for just $1 dollar for the first month with code "DDAAE2WYO6W0M" (code is only valid on monthly billing cycle).

Moving on to the offer.

Order Link: https://drserver.net/mail.php?pk_campaign=LES

Extra Deal: Try the above mail hosting plan for just $1 dollar for the first month with code "JQJGQHFVFB2NMDCT" (code is only valid on monthly billing cycle).

Moving on to our VPS servers…

and now the offers…

DNS Hosting is also available as a standalone service as well.

DNS Hosting Features
Powered by PowerDNS and HostBill
Ability to create multiple types of DNS records
Easy and centralized management
DNSSEC
and more...

and now the offer:

DNS-1
DNS Hosting for 1 zone
PowerDNS
Dallas Location of Nameservers
White-Label NS Domain
Price: $0/month
Link: https://portal.drserver.net/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=155

If you wish to get more zones, we offer them as premium plan.

DNS-5
DNS Hosting for 5 zones
PowerDNS
Dallas Location of Nameservers
White-Label NS Domain
Price: $1/month
Link: https://portal.drserver.net/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=154

More options for DNS hosting are available here: https://portal.drserver.net/?/cart/dns/ .

Last, but not by importance: THE DEDICATED SERVERS.

About us:
drServer started offering service around November of 2013, so we are 8 years old now. The doctor is still here and still stronger than ever and can satisfy all your hosting needs.

All network ports have DDoS protection. Our bandwidth mix includes: Level 3, Cogent, Hurricane Electric, GTT, Telia, Equinix Peering, DECIX Peering, Private Peering.

Thanks for reading the thread! Please let us know if you have any questions!

Have a good day!

Email notification when someone logs in via SSH

mikho — Mon, 03 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Written by @mikho, 3 May 2021
Article was migrated from WordPress to Vanilla in March 2022

Even if it is too late when someone else logs in as root on your server, it is good to know that NOW is the time to get working on your security.

To setup email notification, login to your server as root.
Edit .bashrc

editor .bashrc

add the following line at the end, changing “ServerName” to the hostname of your server and “email@thisaddress.com” to your own email address.

echo 'ALERT - Root Shell Access (ServerName) on:' `date` `who` | mail -s "Alert: Root Access from `who | cut -d"(" -f2 | cut -d")" -f1`" email@thisaddress.com

!NOTE! - Take notice of the ` in the code block. Sometimes when copying code from a webpage, these small characters will mess up when pasted.

Save and exit your .bashrc.

Next time someone, hopefully you, logs on as root, you will get an email about this.

This can be done for any user, you only have to make sure that the user can email out from your server.

Quick Tip: Use the guide here to install and configure a Low Resource SMTP Server.

Ways to create unique emails for sign ups (or, ways to limit spam on your email)

vyas — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 06:02:48 +0000

How or what type of emails do you use for signing up for accounts with web hosts/ SAAS providers/ service providers (online and offline) in general ?

Some of the ways I have come across and or used are:

Create a domain with multiple email accounts, one ID per provider (e.g. les@mydomain.tld, let@mydomain.tld.etc)
Using alias with existing email address like gmail, zoho, domain, etc. (e.g. name+les@gmail.com) Also See the comment from @Groentjuh below.
Use an email relay or forwarding service like ImprovMX or Altmail (or others, pick your favourite)
Using a temporary or disposable email (pick your favourite)
Using anti spam software (which one?? )
Use a Faux email address (I call this the Duh! method - basically two accounts with same or different providers, one email is the 'front face' other is the real email that you use. Set up forward from the front face to the real email account)

As of this morning IST,
I finished the draft of a post this morning on a related topic, in which I list the above 6 options. The post ran to over 3,700 words, so will not bother you with a link right now. Maybe the finished version.

Then I saw this post by @Groentjuh int he offer thread
https://talk.lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/55594/#Comment_55594

example+novos@gmail.com will just go to example@gmail.com. It's a simple way to allow you to use "unique" emails for each sign-up. In case of gmail, it also ignores any dots. So e.x.a.m.p.l.e@gmail.com will also go to example@gmail.com. Alternative options are having an catch-all email account on their own domains or creating aliases for each service.

Since the two are quite related, I decided to post this discussion, with the below questions:

Are there any other methods that you use?
Which is your preferred system for masquerading or protecting real email(s) ?
Which of the above 6 methods in your opinion are suitable for beginners intermediate/advanced?

Thanks !

Email archiving

Elmo — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:47:21 +0000

Hello dear fellow LESbians

I would like your precious feedback on the "Email archiving" subject. The need is to keep all domain emails (Inbox, Sent + User folders) archived centrally for future reference.

Current setup

Domain email is setup on @jarland 's awesome service. Six users (currently but expecting the number to grow) connect via Microsoft Office Outlook POP3 and download their emails. All messages are saved locally on Outlook .PST (which is a PITA to manage and backup). This setup is problematic both because of PST management and issues with mobile devices (IMAP devices don't see Sent emails that were sent from Microsoft Office Outlook).

What I would like to accomplish

Keep Microsoft Office Outlook (since they don't want to switch to another email client) and setup all clients to use IMAP.
Setup a "solution" that will archive all emails for all users on a device within the business (not on a cloud service). Older emails (definition of older to be decided) will be removed from the IMAP server and only kept on archive.
Users or/and the IT admin will need to have access to the archive, whenever needed.
The "solution" should be able to archive directly from IMAP server (all main folders like Inbox, Sent, ect + any user created folders)
The "solution" should be able to be scheduled. Probably quite a few times per hour.
I would prefer a "solution" that does not require to create a catch-all mailbox. Just the users' mailboxes (no need to worry about changing passwords, because the users can not change it).
For starters the "solution" should support 10 users (expecting to grow)
Easy to backup the "solution" (like copy files, (my)SQL backup, etc. NOT something ugly like .PST)
The "solution" should be able to work without any email client installed on the machine (since it will not be installed on users' computers).
Linux or Windows (but preferably Windows)

I am evaluating both free and paid solutions.

What I have seen so far:

https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
Pros: Free, Windows, Really (really!) easy to use, Easy backup of archived data, additional feratures
Cons: Scheduling via Task Manager is impossible (or very hard even - found the way to run it through TS but the process remains running (so it doesn't run the next schedule).

https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-server/
Pros: Same as above
Cons: 295€ for just 5 users and the price increases as the number of users grow

https://www.mailpiler.org/
Pros: Professional email archiving, Open Source
Cons: Needs extensive setup, needs addition catch-all mailbox, not very user friendly, needs resolvable hostname on the running mailpiler server

imapsync
Pros: Easy to setup
Cons: Needs to setup an additional IMAP server (within the business) to copy messages to, which I would rather avoid.

How would YOU handle such a case? Thoughts, opinions, discussion....

drServer.net ||| Shared, Mail, VPS, DNS, Dedicated! Take your wish!

Radi — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:25:30 +0000

Hello friends,

We are back with our multi-services offers. Perhaps you have heard of us, perhaps not....

Starting with the shared hosting, I’d like to talk about the…
…main features each account comes with:
Quick Technical Support - You won’t be waiting for hours to receive a reply to a single question.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee - Don’t like it? Get your money back for your first order.
HIGH Clock CPU
ECC Registered RAM
Enterprise Sandisk OPTIMUS MAX SAS SSD Hard Drives - Delivering ultrafast I/O to get your applications loading with extreme speed
Hardware RAID-10 with BBU - For guaranteed data safety in case of disk failure
Web Server with HHVM support - Guaranteed to work faster than the usual LAMP stack
MariaDB (MySQL) - Faster than ordinary MySQL and compatible with it
Multiple PHP Versions - Not every app is updated to run on newest and greatest, so you get ability to choose.
JetBackup - Backup your website to a remote location free of charge.
Softaculous Auto Installer - You can install your favourite scripts
MailChannels Email Relay - Prevent your emails from landing into SPAM
FREE cPanel Migration - On Request
and much much more, which we will leave for you to discover.

Without further delay, straight to the offer:

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Can I tell you about MXroute?

jarland — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 06:18:07 +0000

(Post approved by Anthony, provided I haven't misunderstood any of his intent)

Hey everyone!

I know a lot of you already from LET, but new faces pop up all the time and I'd like to introduce my business to you. For those that are already friends, an update on how we're doing as a commitment to the LES forum, written just for you and not just pasted from our blog or another forum

Who are we?

MXroute is an email provider that seeks to challenge the standards of the industry in pricing strategy and outbound delivery consistency. Inbound is far from ignored, but I always say that anyone can run an inbound mail server, the real work is the outbound.

How are we challenging the industry?

You see, being able to get your email to Gmail, Hotmail, Verizon, AT&T, Yahoo, and the companies owned by those companies from one server is increasingly difficult, if not almost impossible. Frankly, when all of those are on the table, it's not common that one IP or even IP range can do the job. Formerly, we utilized MailChannels to deal with IP reputation and delivery issues to some of the more difficult to reach providers (let's be honest, AT&T made me give up back then). As great as it was, their efforts to protect their own systems led to excessive false positives which blocked legitimate outbound mail, and their algorithms would kick someone down for an odd sending pattern without warning or immediate recourse. That's why we've put together our own outbound system that will retry failed deliveries from up to 3 IP ranges before giving up. We don't really fail any delivery anymore except when customers send to non-existent recipients. We're pretty proud of what we've built, and I'm convinced that it's the most reliable outbound email infrastructure in the world. I realize exactly how bold of a claim that is.

Our challenge to the pricing structure of the industry is much more compatible with the way you all think about pricing and features, because it's much closer to how shared hosting or a VPS might be priced, and less like how email tends to be priced. We charge based on storage, that's it. No limit to domains or email accounts, just the overall storage used per service (aka purchased package).

What's new?

For those of you that have been around and watched us grow since late 2013, you might also appreciate the changes we've made on the business side in the last year. We are a registered LLC in the state of Texas, and MXroute does actually employ a full time employee (Hi!), as opposed to being a side project (it was quite a side project, but it was never first priority every day). Because of that, we've brought back more traditional support as well, offering email support to all of our customers (in addition to the existing community forum/chat). That was a big request from LET members, I recall.

Things we've added officially recently:

What's next?

New Projects:

In-house control panel in active development, major milestones already passed
Streamlined user onboarding
Self-healing infrastructure (automated recovery from learned events)

If you have any questions about MXroute ask away, or if you just want to post obscene photos within the confines of Anthony's rules that's cool too @WSS.

Email Problem

verjin — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:51:50 +0000

Recently I migrated emails to my server (cPanel with MailChannels) (around 12 June) and since then customer is having problem with specific email addresses (specifically in sending).

If he sends (using Outlook/Thunderbird/MailSpring and other clients) any email to specific email address from his office/home (different computer/mobiles devices) it bounce back. He also run multiple tests via mail-tester/sparkpost/dkimvalidator (and you name it) all fails and shows DKIM/SPF/DMARC has issue.
(When he tries to send via webmail (Roundcube/Horde) no issue and it works just fine)

When I do the same (as he did) from my end, everything passes and works like a charm (no bounceback, DKIM/SPF all are validated without single error).

I am unable to understand what causing the issue, would it be email client (thunderbird,outlook) somehow modifying email headers (If yes then he already ran with different devices and clients) ? Or is it something related to their ISP or local firewall settings? I can provide test email header if you need to look into.

Thanks everyone, any help or suggestion would be great.

What email client do you use?

YellowHummingbird — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 18:26:49 +0000

Hope you're all well at this unusual time!

I'm trying to de-Google my life a bit - especially now my GSuite cost is going up. Part of that is moving my email away from there - and I'm trying to find a nice email client for my phone and my (arch linux) desktop.

On desktop, I don't particularly like the look of Thunderbird, but it seems to work well. I've been experimenting with mutt, which I really like - but no mobile alternative.

On iOS, I liked Canary Mail - it's not cheap, but it's super powerful and has support for aliases and more. However, their privacy policy says (regarding email login details) that "All of this information is stored on your device and is never transferred to our servers." When I logged all my mobile traffic using Charles Proxy, I saw that it's phoning home to them (dev.canarymail.io:9001/post/unsubscribe) with a device identifier and my email addresses, even though I've (a) disabled analytics and (b) disabled push notifications. So I no longer feel I can trust them entirely, and ended up moving to Outlook, which is actually a very well put together app - much better than I expected.

I'm intrigued to know what other people are using for email - do you have an email setup that works well for you?

MailCheap.co vs MXRoute vs others?

Emmet — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 04:09:58 +0000

I'm curious about your hot takes about MailCheap.co vs MXRoute vs other alternatives I'm probably missing.

I know that MXRoute is an all-around solid service, that's definitely in a cheaper price bracket than MailCheap.co, Zoho, GApps, etc. I'm curious about alternatives, and it seems MailCheap advertises itself as an "enterprise" alternative, albeit from what I can tell, its support might be weaker and it has reneged on its pricing before.

Have any of you guys used other services and do you guys have any thoughts about these services?

Heimdall: An open-source personal email guardian

Voss — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 18:25:45 +0000

I came across this piece of OSS that could be useful for some of you: [Link] / [Github]

In broad strokes, here's a summary of what Heimdall does:

Heimdall is a self-hosted email alias/forwarding service
It's a self-hosted and self-managed service, you have complete control over your data

It allows you to:
1. Receive safely: Receive emails on single-use aliases and forward them to your personal inbox.
2. Reply anonymously: Reply to emails from your alias without revealing your personal email address.
3. Attachments: Attachments are supported on incoming and outgoing emails (subject to size limits - see below).
4. Email commands: Manage your aliases through email directly - no separate app or website required.
5. Usage stats: Easily check the usage stats of each alias.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this project. I read the article and wanted to know what you think of it.

Email server setup

k082mx — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 01:30:28 +0000

Hello currently I need to setup a new VPS for email duties, I'm planning to use a small KVM VPS (512MB RAM, 50GB HD, 1 shared core).
My feature requirements are:

Multiple domain support
Multiple email accounts
Storage quotas
Vacation response
Easy managment (I will only setup the VPS and another person will add the mail accounts as they are needed)
Admin GUI
Ability to rate limit (per domain and email account)
SMTP, IMAP, POP3
Webmail

I have considered the following options:

Mail in a box
Mail Cow
VestaCP / HestiaCP
DirectAdmin (Free License provided by the provider)
Redmail (is discarded as it requires a subscription for some functions that are needed)

Which one would you suggest as a better alternative from the ones I mentioned or do you kown a better option?