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> First, I tried mailbox.org, which I can generally recommend without reservation. Unfortunately, you can’t send emails from any address on your own domain with
by dinowars 6mo ago
> First, I tried mailbox.org, which I can generally recommend without reservation. Unfortunately, you can’t send emails from any address on your own domain without a workaround
I use mailbox for a long time, one account for 2.50EUR/month with multiple custom domains and I can send emails from any address. To send from a different address the process didn't really seem different than other providers.
From Thunderbird mobile on Android I just add a new sender identity. If I need to send from webmail, similarly I just add a new alternative sender. Are these the workarounds you mentioned?
- dragochat 6mo ago...also migrating AWAY from Fastmail (Australian) and TO an European provider sounds like a very bad idea - I'd kind of want both the US and the EU legally away from my coms at all costs (!)
- sakisv 6mo agoWhile I agree in principle, I have to remind you (and to myself) that Australia is part of the Five Eyes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
- kioleanu 6mo agoThe problem is that, even if Fastmail are Australian, they host exclusively in the US. They state that sure, there is the possibility of interference at the data center level, but they rely on their anti-hacking measures to prevent unlawful access
- severino 6mo agoIs it that different? Being Australia in alliances like "Five Eyes" I don't think you can keep your stuff away from the US at least when using Fastmail. If you want both US & EU away from your data, I suppose you will have to consider things like Yandex Mail, which comes with its own set of problems too, of course :)
- atmosx 6mo agoFastmails servers are in the US IIRC.
- johannes1234321 6mo agoAs EU citizen I at least got some influence into EU policy. A government far away doesn't even have to pretend to care about me.
- verisimi 6mo ago[flagged]
- johannes1234321 6mo agoThe EU has about 450 million citizens, which of course limits my direct vote. Downside of a democracy (EU is a complicated democracy, but still) is that a majority probably has other priorities than me. However there are many ways to impact policy makers. From individual contact to impact on the public debate. Even a small post here may lead to people considering their vote or contacting a local or EU parliamentarian, which in sum pushes the needle. In the end they are receptive, as they need the votes by the people. It's long and tedious and not all things go anywhere, but then again: I am just one in 450 millionand for most of those priority is to have a Job which pays the rent and food and thus I have to break it down to be relevant for them.
- verisimi 6mo agoThe actual answer as to how much you influence policy is: none at all. The European commission proposes laws. European commissioners are proposed through existing EU institutions. They are not voted in. You vote for MEPs, who discuss laws, pass them, perhaps amending them. They do not propose them. And by the way, this is not democracy, it is 'representative democracy' - you vote for one person to represent you and 100,000s of others for all the decisions an MEP makes over their 5 year term. They are not bound in any way to stick to their campaign promises. Anyway, you might be happy or not about the laws these unelected bodies pass - I'm glad you seem happy about it. You might or might not see Europe as a triumph for its subjects. But there is no need to kid yourself or others that you have any impact over policy.
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- icfly2 6mo agoFastmail runs exclusively of AWS in the US. I looked into this, there are lots of people in forums discussing/ asking for EU based servers.
- nmjenkins 6mo agoFastmail does not run on AWS: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/
- AndyMcConachie 6mo agoI also use mailbox.org and use my own domain for email. Not sure what issue the author ran into.
- layer8 6mo agoMy understanding is that the number of such sender aliases is limited, at most 50 or 250, depending on the plan. There are ways to use a custom domain for sending where you end up using a larger number of localparts fairly quickly, and it would be a hassle to have to manage them, instead of just typing whatever sender you want (or on replies, having the email client automatically use the address from the original email, without having to worry whether it’s still in the set of registered aliases).
- v20 6mo agoThe limit is only enforced in the web interface. You can send from any alias using any third party email client, and on the website you can configure a catchall mailbox and create a rule to filter out the aliases that receive spam.
- tpetry 6mo agoWhen you have a custom domain you can list @mydomain.com as sending domain allowing you every string before the at character. So that means you could use 50 different domains with infinite adresses on these domains.
- patapong 6mo agoHmmm this looks like a really nice option! Any issues with deliverability?
- akvadrako 6mo agoI use mailbox for the past few years and I think it's the best option out there. But they have one major issue, which is that anyone can impersonate your domain: https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-custom-domains-spf-dkim-dmarc https://userforum-en.mailbox.org/topic/anti-spoofing-for-cus...
- solstice 6mo agoOof, what a drag
- okanat 6mo agoI think that is not up to date. Mailbox publishes DKIM records: https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-and-dmarc/#example-dns-records https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... SPF is here https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-and-dmarc/#sender-policy-framework-spf https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/spf-dkim-an... DMARC is up to the domain owner to set.
- akvadrako 6mo agoLack of records isn't the issue. You authorize mailbox's servers to send on behalf of your domain. Then they let anyone with a mailbox account set the from to your domain.
- okanat 6mo agoI see, so their SMTP authentication is woefully broken and they let anybody who can send an e-mail from their SMTP server to put anything in From: ? That's rather hard to believe. The defaults of most SMTP servers like Postfix prevent that. Since I don't want to get banned I don't really want to test that option with their SMTP server. I took the https://emailspooftest.com/ https://emailspooftest.com/ and while the "spoof" mail gets delivered to mailbox.org's Inbox, my Thunderbird client is all red and it warns me about DKIM and SPF fails.
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- scrollop 6mo agoWorks for me as well.
- mentalgear 6mo agoHave been using mailbox.org with a custom domain (including catch-all wildcard) for the last 5 years or so, so it's definitely possible and as far I remember quite straightforward.
- subzero06 6mo agoYea been using mailbox.org for couple months and i can send from any address of my own domain...this is bad article. He probably doesn't know how to.
- tomgag 6mo agoCan confirm, I use mailbox.org with my own domain and can send from any *@mydomain
- shelled 6mo agoI wish they had retained one awesome Thunderbird desktop feature on mobile as well - being able to set the "from" address on the go while composing the email, without having to add an identity/sender-mail in advance. Alas, it seems that hasn't been the case.
- Tepix 6mo agoI don’t understand why this feature isn‘t more widespread, do people not use subaddressing?
- asimops 6mo agoI know it is late, but for anyone reading this now, as I am: Mailbox.org is completely ignoring DMARC since months... And their handling of the issue IMHO is incompetent at best. See this thread (in German) https://userforum.mailbox.org/topic/10676-mailbox-org-akzeptiert-gefalschte-mails-trotz-spf-fail-dkim-fail-dmarc-fail-und-reject-policy https://userforum.mailbox.org/topic/10676-mailbox-org-akzept...
- ohhman11 6mo agoThat's just inexcusably bad. They claimed to be working on the issue 7 months ago, but that was obviously a straight up lie.