From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services
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If Gmail proved anything, it was that people would, for the most part, accept any terms of service. Or at least not care enough to read the fine-print closely.
  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    You need to get your email into some big data databases. It’s fucking bullshit, but until your address is tracked by all the snooping bullshit companies, a lot of services will reject it. They run checks with services like Informatica to verify if it’s a valid email or not, and if they’ve never seen your address before, they’ll mark it as fake. That was the hardest part of using my own email server at the beginning, getting all these asshole spy networks to recognize me.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•9 months ago

      I have had my dedicated IP and server for 7 years now. It still gets flagged as spam, but not blocked. If I knew it was this annoying, I would have never done all this work.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Have you set up DKIM and SPF? That’ll resolve the problem 99% of the time.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•9 months ago

          I attempted and I don’t think I did it correctly. I don’t use it as my primary email anymore since I don’t do much contracting work anymore.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppetEnglish
            1•9 months ago

            I’ve just used HostGator email services set up through cpanel for about 7 years now and the only issues I had were forms not accepting the email addresses at first because they were unknown emails and domains. Maybe consider migrating to a known service to resolve your issues. I don’t even pay them for it, it just came free with my shared hosting package which is like $10 per month.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•9 months ago

              Ahhh, I’m actually running it on my home server. So that could be why it’s more difficult.