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Nice pitch with the quantum!

> Will you ever increase prices? > No. Prices will never increase. Unlike other companies, we will never shutdown our service either.

How?

The Enhanced plan reads:

> We rate limit users and domains to 300 outbound SMTP messages per 1 day.

People who are using DeltaChat groups should think twice here: Every time you reply to the group it will “cost you” as many outgoing emails as there are people in the group, and every time you read a group message it will also cost you as many outgoing emails as there are group members because “read receipts” are sent as plain emails.

A couple of years ago I had to switch email provider exactly because of this. While 300 outgoing emails may sound like a lot, it isn't if you're using DeltaChat groups.

The service is something I'd like to try but it's always left a bad taste in my mouth seeing how the free service will expose my email in dns records.

I'm a firm believer privacy and security should be a default and not a pay to unlock feature. With that in mind I never gave this service a chance and instead tried to use other competitors for email aliasing. [1]

[1]. (Simplelogin.io/ / Addy.io)

Cool product!

Question regarding encryption:

It seems that unless there's an active IMAP connection, emails are written in plaintext to a temporary location and are only added to the encrypted mailbox once a new IMAP connection starts. This is because you use symmetric encryption and need the user's password.

Have you considered incorporating public key encryption in your architecture and if so, why did you choose not to?

I've been using this service for a few years now. No complaints. All my emails seem to come through. Wildcard forwarding for my whole domain is lovely. It confuses the heck out of humans though when you use theirservice@yourdomain.com. Some poor Indonesian lady thought I worked for Mariott

I dislike that this entire website seems heavily geared toward low-quality SEO blog spam. Just hover over any link on this page and read the tooltip.