SEO has essentially destroyed search engines, what are some very useful websites that you might not get given by Google?

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    1 year ago

    So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?

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      1 year ago

      A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful

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        1 year ago

        I think outlook also accepts it.

        Personally I just bought a domain and have a catch all that redirects everything to my email.

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            1 year ago

            If all you want is to receive emails and forward them to another email (like Gmail), it’s straightforward and free. If you want to send using your domain, you usually have to pay someone or spend a bunch of time learning how to set up a mail server on your own and how to get your mails out of people’s spam box. Or you have to find an easy-to-use workaround (I know there is one for Gmail but it’s a bit annoying to set up and use)

            Here are the steps to setting up a catch-all using Cloudflare:

            1. Get a domain (they are actually pretty cheap)
            2. Add the domain to Cloudflare. (If you bought the domain from Cloudflare, this is already done. And Cloudflare is among the cheapest places to buy domains so I recommend it.)
            3. Open the site in the Cloudflare web dashboard and open the tab called “email”
            4. Add a destination email and enable catch-all.
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        1 year ago

        Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.

        Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.

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          1 year ago

          Google doesn’t even factor into this. Go to your registrar of choice (namecheap, etc), buy a domain, and setup that domain to forward all emails to your email address.

          So if you have abraxas@gmail.com and you just bought abraxas.me, in namecheap you can setup *@abraxas.me to go to your gmail account, and then sign up for sites using whatever@abraxas.me you want. There’s no + or - involved, use any word you want. Signing up for lemmy.world? lemmyworld@abraxas.me will go right to your gmail (or whatever email you use)

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              1 year ago

              indeed. It comes in as reallyshadywebsite@squidspinachfootball.xyz, so not only can you easily filter/label them, but you can immediately tell who had a security breach and/or sold your email.

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            1 year ago

            Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.