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Namecrane refugee plan
lovelyserver
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Hi everyone and especially @NameCrane . Is there any chance for a refugee plan/deal after jar's drama?
I know there are some great deals on:
https://namecrane.com/store/email-hosting-deals
https://namecrane.com/store/email-hosting-special-offers
But is any chance to get something similar to $3/3y refugee plan?
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Looking for $100/100y deals
The $75 250G Lifetime Deal is already good enough!
I don't wish for @NameCrane to enter into this drama either since drama begets drama but I feel like a refugee deal can make sense. Maybe @default's idea of having a hope for world peace namecran plan or a good easter/flower deal seems interesting to me.
Also I suppose that now its @NameCrane, I hope that they use this position similar to how steam/valve is and I hope that some new good competitor still comes to @NameCrane because I feel like knowing buyvm/francisco/namecrane, I feel like those guys would love to get better and even enjoy some healthy respectful competition!
Either way, I hope that they stay drama proof for the most part (hopefully)
Wallets ready
Yes, but it’ll be capped at 2 inbound emails a day.
20$ for 3years 100GB email space is already a steal of a deal, and no need for refuge offer. Leave them be.
del
On their website, the 1st plan CraneMail Starter 100G
Tagging @NameCrane and @Francisco into this thread.
As a side note, I don't consider to be a good idea to use doxing (done by someone else) as a way to be remembered by clients through deals connected to such occasion. It is best to use Easter, or the provider poll, or this beautiful spring, or hope in humanity, as reasons for special offers. Right now we have an Easter megathread and a Provider Poll running - these are great rationals for being remembered in one's deals.
Our listed offers are excellent, you won't regret it.
We aren't interested in taking part in that drama. I've made a really concerted effort over the past few years to limit how much I take part in.
Francisco
Cheers. Great deals anyway. I was just hoping for something more amazing.
All the best.
iirc, i got mine when it started, the $20/3yr plan is already good enough for me to use + free SpamExperts.
Do you allow spam though?
I have 2x 3yr plan with Namecrane for $20 in both US and EU. It's been working well.
Does namecrane or any other email provider have single sign on support using something like authentik or keycloak?
This is a very enterprise feature... However I am also interested.
Wouldn't call it enterprise. SSO is very common among home labbers and self hosters.
Sure. But I know of plenty of services that gate keep that behind enterprise plans.
And as someone who fits under the home labbers and self hoster demographic... And slightly beyond that these days... I really really really appreciate that feature.
Explain how this would work. This is to SSO right into SmarterMail side?
Francisco
Refugee doesn't mean what you think it means.
Hi Francisco. Thanks for looking into this.
XOAuth2 is the feature we would need on the mail server side for imap/smtp authentication.
SSO/IDP providers like Keycloak and Authentik have built in support for this and I believe Roundcube has caught up too.
Keycloak implementation: https://www.keycloak.org/2025/05/send-mails-xoauth-26-2
Authentik implementation: https://integrations.goauthentik.io/chat-communication-collaboration/roundcube/
Roundcube XOAuth PRs: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/pull/7425
https://github.com/pear/Net_SMTP/pull/55/commits/bfcbccbf25222eabe71626141abf809629c16e3a
SmarterMail has openly talked about adding oauth last year, so lets see if we see it soon
Francisco
SSO to the specific mailbox yes.
🎉
Thanks Francisco. Appreciate you taking the time to understand and address this request. Please make an announcement when SmarterMail and NameCrane ship the OAuth2/XOAuth2 feature. Looking forward to testing it and then migrating my users over
Its on Smartermail, but i'll ping them and see what they say.
Francisco
Still on their docket, no ETA at the moment.
Francisco
No crypto payment for mail, but shared hosting.
So full details needed?
So full details needed?
you can buy lifetimes with crypto, just not the cheap recurring stuff.
Francisco
I presume the intent of this is that you don't mind privacy minded folks just not the spammers, so the people that will put large amount of crypto on the line are less likely to abuse and lose all of it irrevocably for sending a spams?
You got it. Spammers aren’t keen on spending $75 to maaaybbeee get a few emails out before they get clapped.
Francisco