Email interface in a trans flag color theme.

There’s a secret trans theme in #Port87. I’ve never disclosed it publicly, but for #transdayofvisibity I’m going to. Go into your settings on desktop, open the theme dropdown, then type “traaaaaaaaaaaaaa”. There are other secret themes, but for now, enjoy pink/white/blue #email. Best color theme! :)

Our Stance on AI in Email – SciActive Inc

I've been struggling with how to word my stance on #AI with regard to my #email service, #Port87. Today I sat down and compiled some research to quantify my stance on it, and why I won't be using it.

sciactive.com/2026/01/21/o...

Original post on social.vivaldi.net

Update to my blog entry:

www.fredonline.org/2025/09/port87-label-pow...

I received a message today from Hunter Perrin, the creator of Port 87 - he had seen my blog entry. He advised that, at the time of my testing the product, there was a bug in Port87 preventing the DKIM […]

I just spent the past 13 hours optimizing my #Postgres database.

The result for query to load the emails (when you have tens of thousands in your account) when you first open #Port87

Before: 0.370 seconds
After: 0.050 seconds

All index scans, no bitmap heap scans. Woo!

The owner of Port87 (Hunter Perrin) has uploaded a YouTube video:

'Email on your own domain is easy!'

https://youtu.be/C1FSFhF-1F4

This video includes the use of Port87 mail. This may be of interest to anyone considering using that service.

#Port87 #email

Port87 - label powered email It was recently announced that Port87 was out of beta. I had heard about the service previously but had not signed up to test it. Here's a link to their website, which will explain their service much better than I could: Port87 - A new kind of email Today, I signed up for the free service - Basic Mail - which has 500MB of storage. Note that only covers _receiving_ of emails. If you want to _send_ emails, get more storage, or use your own domain(s), it's at an additional cost. Here's the link to their pricing: Pricing - Port87 When signing up for the service, I had to provide a recovery email address - I used a Gmail address, their verification email was received and verified. Now for first test - I created a label 'Social' for - guess what? - social media stuff. Next I logged into my Runbox account and sent a test message to 'myusername-social@port87.com'. Shortly after I received this auto-response from Port87: **This address has email screening enabled. Therefore, Port87 needs you to do a one-time verification that you're a real person. If you can see the blue-gray checkmark below, you're all set. If not, you can enable remote images in your email client or click the link to verify your address. Once verified, your message will be delivered.** ** ** **Verify Address** ** ** **Port87 uses this verification process to prevent unwanted mail from getting to our users. Until you complete this verification, your message will be on hold. If you don't complete this verification within 60 days, your message will be deleted. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.** ** ** **Best,** **The Port87 Team** Once I had verified my address, the original email then appeared in my Port87 account. So far so good! The next test was sending an email to what Port87 calls my 'bare' address - 'myusername@port87.com'. I would prefer to call it my 'default' address, but anyway . . . This time, sending from the Gmail account that is my recovery email address for my Port87 account. This is where I encountered the first problem. Although I had received the verification email from Port87 when setting up the account, this time I received nothing - nothing in my Gmail inbox or spam folder! That was surprising to me that Gmail did not flag the first email from Port87, and then just silently dropped the second one. Gmail appear to be classing the second email as spam. So that test failed. Tried the same thing again, but sending from an email address hosted by MXroute. Again, and the same as Gmail, I got nothing back. It seems that MXroute had dropped the email. So _that_ test also failed. One more try, this time sending from a Fastmail account. Luckier, this time, I got a response back from Port87, but it landed in the spam folder. At least I could mark it as 'not-spam' and then it all worked OK from then on. I've since whitelisted the port87.com domain within my Gmail, MXroute and Fastmail accounts. I've not re-tested those accounts, although that is the logical next step. Early days, first steps, etc.

Port87 - label powered email:

www.fredonline.org/2025/09/port87-label-pow...

#Port87 #email