• deeroh@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    I’m using Hey, and while there are some issues with the company (namely, the CEO enacting some shitty employee policies during the pandemic), their email service is great.

    Particularly, I love their email allowlist. Whenever you get an email from a new sender for the first time, you have the option to allow or deny their emails from then on. I used to always have thousands of unread emails when I was on Gmail (most things just routing to an unused “Newsletter” folder), but now, pretty much every email I get is one that I actually want to read.

    It’s a paid service, and tbh debatable whether or not it’s worth the price, but the screening feature singlehandedly makes it worthwhile for me.

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      1 year ago

      I switched from Hey to Onmail because it’s basically Hey without the douchey CEO. Also I was an early onmail adopter so I have my first name for an email.

      It has a free tier but I pay for it. I switched away from gmail because I wanted my email to be a service I’m the customer of that I pay for, rather than me being the product.

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      1 year ago

      I wondered if folks were still using Hey. I use the iOS app Spark for managing my email, it has a similar “allow list” for new senders. Agreed it’s super helpful.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair though, I’m also pretty reluctant to change emails. I switched everything over, and while it sounds like you can emulate the allowlist with other services, I reeeally don’t want to switch yet again :/