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Comment · 5 years ago
Haha no the confirmation mails are sent straight away ;)

"tardamail.com is too new, temporarily blacklisted" is what I see in the mail-logs.

Seems like something I can't do much about at the moment, and should correct itself in a while. It seems to get past most spam-filters though.

I'll consider implementing an email-confirmation backup, thanks!

Comment · 5 years ago
I double checked, and the confirmation links are sent to the sender as you would expect. Please check again and make sure you use the correct fields. If it happens more often, I'll consider swapping the fields, even though this order seems to make most sense looking at several email clients.
Comment · 5 years ago
Cool, I did not know that. Are there any other thinkable use cases of keeping messages in a hold queue for a longer period of time, for this option to exist?
Comment · 5 years ago
Done!
Comment · 5 years ago
Good point, I will push an update with email verification and a favicon in the next hour.
Comment · 5 years ago
Instant messaging has become the standard. The messages I send my good friends have become shorter, and are often based on my expectations of their reply. With TardaMail, I wanted to recreate the letter-writing experience, digitally. Taking more time to write someone without expecting an instant reply can be very valuable, especially in these times of isolation.
Comment · 6 years ago
Looks cool, probably uses similar techniques indeed!

The use case of my API is not quite as you describe, but I get the confusion. Instead, my case needs the platforms at which you register to implement the new method of confirmation. That means you can't just use this for every existing software.

It goes like this:

- You register at platform A with your own real email address

- Platform A asks you to confirm your email address, but instead of sending you an email, it shows you an email address to which you can send an email.

- You send an email using your own real email address.

- Platform A receives an event from my API that they received an email at the given email address from the email address they expected, so email address confirmed.

What you see at the provided URL is simply a demo of what could be part of any registration form.

Comment · 6 years ago
Manual account activation because the "please click this link to confirm your email address" email somehow does not end up in my user's inbox, is one of the most frequent support requests I get.

I built an API (private for now) which offers a solution to these scenarios, and may work as an alternative to passive email validation.

Instead of receiving an email, users are asked to send an email to a unique email address to confirm their email address (this - by the way - also filters out temporary receive-only email addresses)

A proof of concept can be found here: https://confirm-email.progresso-ict.nl. I can imagine the API to be used for account creation, password recovery, signing up for newsletters, etc.

Even though, with a clickable mailto address, the amount of steps are equal or similar to receiving a confirmation email, my girlfriend tells me the method is cumbersome.

So, what does the HN community think? Other questions I still have to investigate are mainly security-related. Emails are spam-filtered by Amazon SES, yet have to test for spoofing.

Comment · 6 years ago
IPTV subscriptions are an alternative to regular cable tv subscriptions. It's linear tv streamed over the internet instead of it being delivered to you by your cable provider.

It's used for many reasons, but I personally got a subscription at an IPTV provider to be able to offer my French girlfriend to keep watching her French TV channels while living in the Netherlands.

That said, my service does not offer IPTV, simply an editor to users who already have their own IPTV subscription.

Comment · 6 years ago
Awesome, great pointers. Thanks for that!
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks. It all runs on a Laravel codebase, and the SaaS part is handled by Laravel Spark. UI of the landing page is a template I bought, the dashboard is own tinkering.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's the cool thing, it got its first users without any promotion what so ever. I had used it myself for a couple of months, and only after 2 months I logged into the database and saw these 7 users who simply found it (maybe by URL). They not only registered but were actually using it in the same was as I did.

After that, did post it on some forums, and on the IPTV subreddit, which did give it a boost.

But I have not been posting it anywhere for the last few months now, it seems that the steady flow of new users just keeps pretty constant no and the most active users are the ones who just find it through Google.

Comment · 6 years ago
Interesting, will definitely reconsider. Thanks!

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