An email service that uses addresses like [email protected] to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like [email protected].
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address ([email protected]), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.
Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.
I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:
Receive unlimited mail, 500MB storage: Free
Send unlimited mail*: $1/month
2GB extra: $2/month
10GB extra: $6/month
20GB extra: $10/month
100GB extra: $20/month
1TB extra: $40/month
There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:
Native mobile app (right now it’s a PWA): Free
IMAP/SMTP/CardDAV for third party clients and to import/export/sync: Undetermined price
Custom domain with unlimited addresses: Undetermined price
Additional users for you custom domain: Undetermined price
* The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.
I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)
PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.
https://port87.com
An email service that uses addresses like [email protected] to organize all your email into a folder for every app/service.
You can also make these addresses screen senders before their email goes through, for something like [email protected].
You can mark them as public and they’ll be included in a list if someone emails the bare address ([email protected]), so you can share your bare address all over the internet without getting spam.
(Full disclosure: I created and operate this service.)
So, you can do this with gmail already. What’s your pitch on why someone should use Port87 instead of Gmail (besides the obvious Google is evil, etc.)?
A lot of services have stopped accepting + addresses as valid, or even stripping them before saving. So at least for a while, - addresses could be more useful
For nerds like us there’s a cool article at https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/plus-signs-in-email-addresses.html that covers this in detail.
you can also just buy your own domain and set it up your gmail/whatever as the catchall, then use [email protected]
Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.
Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.
It is trivial to strip +xyz from all of the email addresses in a list.
Same for -xyz…
Buy a domain, set up a catch-all and use servicename@yourdomain. Boom.
If you read the website they have a workaround. Email sent to the bare address will Be denied and receive an automated response.
Where is the pricing?
I don’t have it on the promotional site right now, but here’s the breakdown:
There are upcoming features that I haven’t done the market research and cost analysis for yet to determine pricing, but these are the features that are still in development:
* The reason for charging $1/month to send email is so that spammers won’t use my service to send spam. A spammer is very unlikely to divulge their real payment information.
That sounds reasonable! Though personally, I definitely wouldn’t use an e-mail service without IMAP support.
I feel you. Technically, the service is in a public beta test, only because I don’t have all the features complete yet.
I have the IMAP spec printed out in a binder at my desk. I have to write the server myself because of how Port87 works (I can’t just use an off-the-shelf server, like Dovecot). But I’m working hard to get IMAP support out soon! :)
PS: also, once I do write it, the IMAP server will be open source, just like the CardDAV server I’m working on.