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Ask HN: Have you had trouble with using alternative email providers?

by tmoaad on 12/21/20, 6:56 PM with 11 comments

A year ago I finally said most of my goodbyes to gmail and moved over to a more private email provider (Hushmail).

Yesterday, I went to go signup for Repl.it and for the first time I was told to go grovel via email to prove that my email is valid and that I'm actually a human. Sure, I stop what I'm doing and send an email. I get a reply back saying (summed up with the anger of watching the internet burn down around you) "go to our support forum and grovel publicly but if you're actually trying to reach someone send another email and we might take it seriously".

...is this really what awaits those of us who choose not to be with the largest email providers (Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo) or refuse to use SSO (Google/Github/FB Login)?

  • by amasad on 12/21/20, 11:28 PM

    Hi, Repl.it CEO/founder here. Are you saying we asked you to send us an email? You should only have gotten a "Verify your email" link.

  • by torqu3e on 12/22/20, 1:06 PM

    Fastmail does email for my personal domain which is what I've been primarily using for not sure how many years and literally not once have I had any issues. Know at least a few other users in the same boat and never heard a complain.

  • by mistermithras on 12/21/20, 7:18 PM

    May I suggest https://www.cotse.net/ ? They don't do this kind of stuff. I'm a long-time user/fan of them.

  • by replwoacause on 12/22/20, 2:30 AM

    I recently switched to Fastmail after finally getting paranoid enough about Google arbitrarily snuffing out my account access. I have been very happy with the switch 4 months in.

  • by HomeDeLaPot on 12/23/20, 12:19 AM

    I've been happy with Fastmail so far. Very smooth experience with their web and Android apps. Want to try using them with my own domain soon.

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