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- Twilio-based SMS messaging. You can create SMS templates and customer journeys within Dittofeed.
SMS is a great channel for B2C software companies, looking to engage with their users. For example, e-commerce businesses commonly use SMS to support checkout flows.
We'll be making further enhancements to Dittofeed's SMS support in the coming weeks!
- We added a new "Trait Exists" segmentation option, which can be used to create a segment of all users with phone numbers, for example.
- We made some fairly large improvements to our settings UI. Big shout out to our contributor! https://github.com/promisetochi
The full feature release blog post can be found here: https://dittofeed.com/blog/release-0-5-0.
Looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
Github Repo - https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed
I was wondering if anyone had any experience combining the microsoft 365 business basic (6$ a month) with self-hosted email server? By relaying SMTP through the Microsoft provided outlook server, would my custom domain be free from being marked by spam?
i studied philosophy, literature, and law in school and never really got a handle on computers, despite my interest
but a little over a year ago i heard about hackernews
i think it was the calm design of the site that made me become a regular; within no time, i had strong opinions on systemd & sysvinit, on functional & object-oriented programming, on emacs & vim (actually i still don't yet have a handle on emacs but i'm working on it...)
the first thing ya'll inspired me to do was to set up a matrix instance on a vps to replace whatsapp for my circle of friends. it was hard, for me, at first, to set up, but i quickly got addicted to the feeling of ownership that came with being the admin. that alone i would say is worth a huge thank you, but you've inspired me to do even more:
- switched to MX Linux as my daily driver
- started learning emacs and trying to do as much as possible within emacs
- built a server from spare parts and configured debian from scratch
- replaced netflix with jellyfin
- hosted my urbit and made it accessible via any web browser
- set up a minio backend for my urbit
- replaced spotify with navidrome
- hosted a pigallery2 (for my friend who is a photographer)
- created for myself a pseudo-unified computing environment using syncthing
- everything proxied with caddy
just today i set up miniflux and https://github.com/vasanthv/talk
i look forward to hearing about new projects that i can deploy to improve my friends' lives; i hear about them here
but it's not even just what you've encouraged me to do: once i had my server working i became consumed by the idea that i could do it all myself, so i started to try to self-host email. you all helped encourage me to give up that nightmare and just pay a real company to do it for me
this points at maybe what i'm most thankful for: i have a much deeper and more sophisticated understanding of the technology stack i interact with at any given time. even if i'm not "in control", at least knowing how i'm not in control gives a sense of security
more than that, i'm able to impress my nephew, a supposed computer genius, by simply regurgitating the latest talking points from HN. maybe this is the most valuable benefit i've derived so far....
one of the other things i've done is to self-host a ghost installation for the benefit of my friends, john and borka. they basically live like monks for the benefit of the preservation of the amazon rainforest. with HN's help, i have been able to set them up with a website:
https://RioMomon.rhizoma.zone
sometimes at this time of year people look for something to which to donate. the nice thing about rio momon is that all of the money goes directly towards the mission (web hosting & web dev costs, for example, are borne by me -- and i am able to do it easily, because HN taught me)
thank you!
It appears Fastmail consider Mail.app on Catalina insecure, and it requires its own 16-character alphanumeric password to access my email via IMAP. I set a password, and tried it in Mail.app…and it didn't work. It did work in Thunderbird. I tried their pre-made .mobileconfig file to set up the account via System Preferences…and that didn't work in Mail.app.
I raised a support ticket asking for some guidance on what to do next – explicitly mentioning that the app password did work in Thunderbird – but was told my password was wrong and I have to reset it…and the ticket was closed. I've spent most of a day trying various things and I'm done. My email has been just fine for 6 years, it started getting a bit wobbly about a week or so ago, and I've lost all patience trying to resolve this. So, I'm looking for another provider.
I am looking at Protonmail, since I have no requirement for any of the Google or Microsoft productivity suites…anyone else sensible I could look into? I don't need turbo levels of privacy or suchlike, just a setup that works (that I don't have to self host, since I do a lot of that and self-hosted email is a nut I haven't cracked yet).
Thank you.
I can move my photos to iCloud all I want, but Apple Mail at the end of the day is just a client for email, and I want a non-google email account too.
No, all you overachievers out there, I don't want to self host (in ANY way) my own email server or infrastructure in AWS or whatever, no matter how easy you think it is. I want a reliable email account with stellar human support if I lose access to it. Happy to pay for it if required. What's the best options out there?
EDIT actually I didn't know this but it seems like Apple iCloud does in fact have email as a service as well and not just as a client? I've now created an iCloud email address associated with my Apple account, I think I will use that.
Are there people out there who would buy a pre-built server and/or use a subscription service to manage things like a wireguard vpn, mx backup and domain hosting?
What would be a comprehensive security checklist for developers?
i.e. everything from OWASP, Schneier, best of the security web etc.
For example, just to get started:
1. Use bcrypt.
2. Use different non-guessable private email addresses and passwords for critical services.
3. Self-host critical email addresses.
4. Two-factor authentication.
5. Disable iCloud Find My Mac or disable iCloud completely.
6. Use FileVault2 or full disk encryption.
7. Set your system to log out after inactivity.
8. Set your screensaver with password to show after 5 minutes.
9. Use a passcode on your iPad.
10. Master server should not have access to backup server.
We tend to focus on securing the app we develop, without thinking too much about securing the suppliers we use, or reducing surface area, or considering orthogonal vectors.
There are many great checklists covering certain aspects of security, but it would be great to have all of this in one place.
Email feels like one of the most decentralized internet concepts, and ironically it's seemingly the one thing I can't self-host unless, from what I've heard, I enjoy being permanently marked as spam / blacklisted. What's going on? How do we fix this?
We just added low-code functionality to our open-source email template editor. The editor features a Notion-inspired “/” command interface for inserting new blocks.
You still have the option of using MJML or HTML, but we wanted to give everyone an easier option for creating primarily text-based emails.
We have a live demo of the editor which you can access here (just hit the “Create Template” button): https://demo.dittofeed.com/dashboard/templates
Since this is the first iteration of the feature, we’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on how we can improve it.
You can reach us anytime at:
founders@dittofeed.com
If you’d like to self-host Dittofeed and want help from us and the community, you can join our Discord: https://discord.gg/HajPkCG4Mm
We are building the first open-source and self-hostable `email alias` (or email forwarding) and `identity provider` service, called SimpleLogin (simplelogin.io)
In terms of email forwarding, it works in a similar way to other solutions (33mail, anonaddy, spamex, mailcare, etc): all emails sent to an `email alias` are forwarded to your personal email address.
We have some differences though:
- Open-source and easy to self-host. The self-hosting is based on Docker and could be run on almost any Linux server. The hosting instruction is on our repository at https://github.com/simple-login/app
- Generous free plan: there's no cap on bandwidth or number of replies/sends. The Free Plan is enough for protecting your personal email. Premium Plan targets at more "advanced" users with features like custom domain, unlimited alias or catch-all alias.
- Open Roadmap with some upcoming features: email directory, extension for Safari, mobile applications, etc. Feel free to check it out on https://trello.com/b/4d6A69I4/open-roadmap
- Export your data: this tiny feature is actually missing in a lot of solution we tested. It allows you to change the service provider if someday you decide to leave SimpleLogin.
The code source for the server is on https://github.com/simple-login/app and browser-extension at https://github.com/simple-login/browser-extension.
Please let us know if you have any questions/feedbacks/critics.
Thanks.
SimpleLogin team.
Previously, fastmail has crossed my radar as a potential host that would have the proper balance of technical competence and valuing user privacy/security, but that's really all that comes to mind. I'd prefer not to self-host; keeping my main contact avenue functional should be a decision, not a project.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
There was a related thread two days ago [0].
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18511650
Ideally something I can self-host, but I'll take anything.
> Unfortunately, messages from [45.55.34.226] weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.
I went through their support channels and they were completely useless.
> Thanks for your patience while we investigated your request.
> Below your IP address(es) and their status(es) are listed.
> Not qualified for mitigation
> 45.55.34.226;
> The IP(s) above do not qualify for mitigation.
> Please note: This outcome indicates behavior that misses standards; please review Improving E-mail Deliverability into Windows Live white paper for helpful tips.
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> What standards are missing? DKIM and SPF are passing and I got the IP taken off of Spamhaus recently. Other email servers like gmail aren’t finding an issue.
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> Your IP (45.55.34.226) was blocked by Outlook.com because Hotmail customers have reported email from this IP as unwanted. One possible explanation for this is the automatic forwarding of unfiltered inbound messages, including unwanted messages, to Outlook.com/MSN addresses.
> Please confirm that your emails comply with Hotmail’s technical standards.
> For more detailed information about best sending practices to Outlook.com users, please review Outlook.com Enhanced Deliverability white paper.
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> I’ve ensured there is no open relay, and I’ve only tried to send messages to my own Hotmail address so far. There are no other user accounts on this email server, just me.
> I’ve also signed up for the Junk Mail Reporting Program/Smart Network Data Services with that domain/IP. I don’t see any incidents there.
> Around what day/time was email reported as wanted?
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> Thank you for contacting the Outlook.com Deliverability Support Team.
> As previously stated, your IP (45.55.34.226) do not qualify for mitigation at this time. I do apologize, but I am unable to provide any details about this situation since we do not have the liberty to discuss the nature of the block.
> At this point, I would suggest that you review and comply with Outlook.com’s technical standards.
> We regret that we are unable to provide any additional information or assistance at this time.
I've gone through all the links they sent me and nothing is wrong with my email server. It's impossible that I could have ever sent spam. They just decided they don't like me for no reason and I don't get to send them mail.