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posted by martyb on Wednesday August 14 2019, @01:54AM   Printer-friendly
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I would like to ask my fellow soylentists... What do you do for an email solution?

For almost 20 years, I have had my own personal domains along with corresponding websites, email, and any other needed service. As I am older now, I no longer need any of the visibility of my own website; I do not need it for getting new jobs, or to host any application or service. However, I still need email. My current ISP has annoyed me with rising fees and a lack of any service (not surprisingly, it went downhill really fast once their business was merged with another.)

So, I am looking to drop everything except the actual domains and the email, (not to mention change providers.) What solutions does everyone else use? Are you happy with your provider?

The biggest feature I am looking for is some type of "catchall" email address. While I realize this means a lot more spam, I am already filtering the 99% of that out. For years, I have created many single use email addresses for various websites. (e.g. keyword@mydomain.xxx ) IMO, this creates better security, because anyone trying to access my accounts need to know the email address I used as well as the password, and I also find out which websites sell my email address to others or get breached. It seems that the majority of sites do not have this simple feature anymore.

Due to my multiple handles, most of the simple email sites will not work for me. Not to mention sites that charge per email handle are not very good either. While I can consolidate with a catch-all address, this is not a preferred method.

I prefer POP3 so that I can have multiple devices access my email and webmail is a plus but not required.

So does anyone know of a email site that will fit my needs? Or is my best chance to create my own email server on a linode VPS? (Though I would prefer a simple premade solution instead of maintaining my own server at this point.)


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  • (Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:52PM (1 child)

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Wednesday August 14 2019, @05:52PM (#880392) Homepage

    Make a Sent folder under INBOX (some IMAP servers even allow it at the same level as INBOX I think) and some E-mail clients will automatically recognize it. I know with Evolution on GNOME you can configure it to be the folder to store E-mails in after sending.

    If somebobody knows how to do this with the SailfishOS E-mail client without hacking it, let me know. Else I'll need to change its sources and repackage it someday .. (but I'm lazy)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @05:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 15 2019, @05:53PM (#880672)

    Your special folders are recommended to be one of the "top-level" folders, along with "INBOX." Basically, folders aren't really folders, but 7-bit clean, UTF-8 coerced names separated by a server-selected separator that can be ignored as a hierarchy by the client. So, it's not surprising that your software autodetection got thrown off if you went too far afield of the recommendations.

    But for your question, different programs have different configuration places to override the defaults because not everybody follows the recommended names. To change it on Sailfish, you can edit the config file for QMP directly or override it for a particular account by editing the SQLite file like this: https://together.jolla.com/question/159328/email-app-imap-folder-assignment-logic/ [jolla.com]