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Message boards via e-mail, not Gemini

nothien at uber.space nothien at uber.space

Fri Jan 8 15:43:17 GMT 2021

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Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms at gmail.com> wrote:

Right now, it's quite the opposite. Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co.

control the vast majority of email addresses. Also, they don't like

emails sent from dynamic ips. Try to setup a mail server nowadays. I

have, but my internet provider gives me a dynamic ip. Fine? Nope, my

mail is blocked by 90% of providers, even if my setup is correct and

my score on [1] is excellent, google refuses to accept my emails. So

here I am, sending a mail from a google account. Email was

decentralized, now it is not. But if you can prove me wrong (host a

mail server with a dynamic ip and being able to send emails to

anybody) please do, I'd really like to ditch google mail.

[1] https://www.mail-tester.com/

You're right, the situation right now is not ideal. But there are somealternative solutions. For example, I'm using Uberspace, which is apretty cheap hosting platform. E-mails from my Uberspace address aregenerally accepted by Google and the like. ProtonMail is also prettygood (but you'll want emersion's hydroxide for IMAP/SMTP on free plans).

You could probably crawl through all the addresses on this mailing listand find some suitable domains - I just did so for the last 2011 e-mailson this list, with the following domains and counts of e-mail addresses:


But even if e-mail is not the right protocol to use, Gemini isdefinitely worse.  If you have suggestions beyond either one, please doshare.

~aravk | ~nothien