• floofloof
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    3 days ago

    I was about to switch to Proton until the Proton CEO outed himself as a Trumper.

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      I run my own email server since August and I’m never going back. I use the mailinabox.email open source software stack.

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        I have heard that it can be difficult to get emails sent from a self-hosted server accepted by the big email providers. Have you experienced any difficulty with this? And how is spam filtering?

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          I haven’t had deliverability issues. Might be for a number of reasons:

          • mailinabox does a huge amount of modern email security
          • I’ve owned my domain for many years
          • Contabo probably has fewer cases of reused IP addresses than the big cloud providers

          I don’t get spam, but that might be because anything that might generate spam I use Gmail for. Mailinabox includes a number of spam reduction systems, too.

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      Well, I don’t recall that but he did express support for Gail Slater, a nominee by former President Donald Trump for a position in the Department of Justice antitrust division.

      However, I may just not possess this information. I don’t not trust you, but is there something specific you can link to? Or do you recall where you heard that?

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        People are putting a spin on this, but Proton has explained that it considers the Republicans more likely to tackle “Big Tech abuses” until the Democratic Party sheds its corporatists. So on this issue the company seems to officially support the Republicans. People are understandably skeptical and think that, given the Republicans’ past record and the many other awful things they promise to do under Trump, this is a misjudgement by Proton:

        https://archive.ph/quYyb

        Here’s the original post by the CEO: