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I self-host Addy
I have an easier solution
No cold spam marketing
Okay, when shkron is going to make sale thread? €12/y ?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What about 7€/year ?
Impossible.
Total €7.856 €8.152~€8.2024 per year
Not including colo cost, license, network blend, etc
Where have you seen such a low price?
My bad, it's actually €3.051 per /32 year or €3.1104 per 32 year
RIPE is more expensive it seems, my average /24 expense is €115/month
I think I saw /16 sold for $9/ip few months ago. Your avg. /24 is more expensive than average LET deals at $90-100 per /24 month
Sorry, I don't have a spare $590k yet
Maybe LET hosts should make joint venture. That's roughly $2.4K per /24 (don't forget the legal fees, etc)
At that pricing, I would purchase /23 for myself (not this year though, spent too much on HDD)
what is email verifier?
As per Abusix,
"Email verifier" is the service doing "list washing".
This is not considered ethical practice.
The only ethical practice is...
This is not necessarily true. We used Email verifier previously to prevent abuse. People were signing up with fake email address, to the extent that our verification code email triggered Amazon SES bounce-rate warning. This was an important safety measure at the time.
It is still technically a list washing, though I agree that this particular scenario is completely fine.
I do think that the better approach is to add some ratelimiting/CAPTCHA to minimize rate at which someone could abuse your signup to send "Email Verification" letter to existing (not bouncing) addresses.
Thank you @tentor ! 😍🧡
My short list of email validation providers I tested including tests, costs etc https://github.com/centminmod/validate-emails
My clients are using self-hosted reacher.
Our KVM-8G plan works perfectly with reacher.email
https://hostcram.com/vps
Is proper bouncing of invalid email addresses still considered good practice?
I know many providers now simply accept the message and quietly discard it if the destination mailbox does not exist.
I don't really see much value in helping people harvest mailbox names or clean mailing lists by telling them which addresses exist and which do not.
Backscatter is not considered a good practice, but both Google Workspace and MS365 do it so I guess no one cares anymore?
Rejecting during SMTP transaction is better than silent discard because sender gets early feedback.
This is why "list washing" services are not liked amongst mail server operators. You can disable the SMTP VRFY command without negative consequences but silently discarding non-existent recipients worsens UX for legitimate transactions.
I am not so sure about "many providers now simply accept the message and quietly discard it" part though. At least this is not what I see within e.g. mailop community.