[PLUG] Fwd: email list provider

[Mike C.]

It's time to have choices in vendors.

Yes! I've had a riseup and proton mail account for years and have been
threatening to stop using Gmail for a few years now. And yet, here I still
am. <sigh>

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 2:17 PM Michael Rasmussen <michael at michaelsnet.us>
wrote:

> So you're saying they should be able to send email from random service
> to a Gmail hosted list and have it all work.
>
> Both the group admin and a user say they've got to configure something
> on the Gmail list to enable this.
>
> I personally like Mike C's suggestion of Riseup. It's time to have
> choices in vendors.
>
> On 2020-01-07 13:22, Russell Senior wrote:
> > Gmail takes my mail server's mail, last I checked.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 13:20 John Sechrest <sechrest at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> You can get imap for Gmail and you can send email from other domains.
> >> So I
> >> don't think the premise is correct.
> >>
> >> The main question for me would be down filtering. But most domain
> >> hosting
> >> provides some form of email services.
> >>
> >> The other choice is to self host it on a virtual instance.
> >>
> >> Again many choices for basic services. And down filtering being a main
> >> differentiator
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 12:49 PM Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've hosted email lists for a small group of people. I'm now unwinding
> >> > all of them. They need to find replacement vendors.
> >> >
> >> > The default seems to be Gmail. One of the members is unhappy because
> he
> >> > can't just send mail to it from his private domain. And would like an
> >> > alternate. I've been happy with mine and not researched the
> >> > alternatives.
> >> >
> >> > What suggestions do you have?
> >> >
>
> --
>        Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
>       Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity
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