• Starya68@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Federation isn’t like email at all. I don’t know why people keep saying that. You’ll never get a message saying “we’re not receiving email from this server today” unless something has gone horribly wrong.

    Email also doesn’t hang with a green loading circle for hours when you try to log in.

    • yarr@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Smaller domains are blocked all the time, ask your local email admin… just because you’re not getting messages about it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen

    • Moon@aiparadise.moe
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      1 year ago

      As someone who runs multiple email servers, this is exactly how it works.

      Some email providers will randomly or purposely block emails I sent to them. I get arbitrary blocks or dropped emails on sent emails.

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I think others are noting how it can be like this. In my experience:

      • My kids’ school accounts can only send emails to and receive emails from their teachers’ email addresses. All other emails, including those from fellow students, are blocked.
      • I frequently have issues with whitelisted email addresses at work. They sometimes are blocked and I have to go through the tedious whitelisting process all over again.