What do you call software that tricks you into clicking an ad? I call it malware. #Gmail is #malware. As long as I’m in charge, https://port87.com will never do that. #email #port87 #google

Now that I have a lot more control of #notifications from my #email with #Port87, I’ve noticed how redundant #PushNotifications are for most apps. So I’ve turned off notifications on several apps so far. https://port87.com

Honestly, the best promotion of #Port87 Mail is probably just a screenshot of the major players’ apps. There’s a trend in #email services to inject ads that look like unread email into your inbox. It’s disgusting, and I would never do that in Port87. Tricking your users into clicking ads is what #malware does. Try https://port87.com instead.

I wrote an article about how #Port87 helps with organizing your #email.

I actually signed up for some newsletters and mailing lists recently. I haven't done that in like 15 years.

https://sciactive.com/2023/07/17/the-best-email-for-those-who-struggle-with-organization/

Fun Fact: when you start a new #email server, #Gmail, #Yahoo, etc, will mark everything you send as spam. You have to separately message everyone you email to tell them to check their spam folder for your email and mark it not spam. After about two weeks of this tedious process, they will start to deliver your messages properly.

Gmail is starting to deliver #Port87 Mail invite emails to users’ inboxes. How did we let big business take away one of the few free protocols we have?

This is why #Port87 Mail is so nice. I've gotten 4 emails from Newegg, from 3 different addresses on 2 different domins, and I spent 0 minutes configuring a filter to put them all in the Newegg label.

I just gave them the #email address hperrin-newegg@port87.com and they all go there automatically.

If you wanna join the waitlist, check out https://port87.com

It took so long to write the code to sanitize the email body. It supports all the same #CSS that Gmail does, so if an #email looks good in Gmail, it will look good in #Port87.

The sanitization works both server side and client side, so there's no loading bar when you go to the page; you just instantly see a fully rendered email.

I just signed up for my first account using my #Port87 Mail address, and it worked perfectly! The email looks so good! I'm really excited that it worked so well. :D

I never had to set up the special email address for it, I just typed hperrin-mxtoolbox@port87.com into the email field, and Port87 made the mxtoolbox label for me.

The invite emails for #Port87 Mail are going to Gmail's spam folder. Yet one more reason Gmail sucks.

Today I’m opening my #email service, #Port87, up to the public for beta testing. It’s a first come first serve waitlist. Come join! https://port87.com/

Port87 automatically organizes your email and prevents spam!

I made something really cool today that’s still boggling my mind. Iterable and cancellable remote procedure calls in my #JavaScript #ORM #NymphJS!

Wow, that’s a lot of tech jargon. The problem is that when you empty your trash folder in #Port87 Mail, that runs on the server, and it could take a long time if you have a lot of trash. So I want to show a progress bar and let you cancel it.

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https://sciactive.com/2023/06/14/iterable-cancellable-rpcs-in-nymphjs/

This was such an incredibly difficult problem to solve. #Email can include #CSS, but that CSS can be dangerous to show in a web page. So I now have a CSS parser in #Port87 that sanitizes, filters, and properly scopes the CSS in your email before showing it to you.

If an email looks good in #Gmail, it will look good in Port87 Mail! :D

I’m going away on a trip, and this will probably be the last time for a few years I’ll be comfortable not having a laptop with me. By the end of the month, I’m going to start letting people on to my #Port87 Mail app! :D

In my #Port87 Mail app, I'm designing what the experience of running out of space will be like.

I'm thinking that when you are out of space, sending email will be disabled, but you'll have an amount of "grace space" for receiving email. Is that a good idea?

It’s pretty cool to see a real search returning real results on my #Port87 Mail mobile app. (This is a very early #development build, and not how the final app will look.) It’s built with #SvelteNative, which lets you build a #NativeScript app with #SvelteJS!

What #Mastodon is *currently* doing to social media is exactly what email *could* be doing to instant messaging. Email has had too many features bolted on. We need a specific header like "Display-As: dm" to tell an email client that a message is just a message, not an entire fucking formal letter. This is what I want to do with #Port87.

I've been using #SvelteNative to build my #Port87 Mail mobile app, and it's the first time in almost two decades that I'm creating a #GUI that doesn't use #HTML. I'm really happy I still get to use #Svelte, #CSS, and #TypeScript though!