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Have any of you heard up Posteo being flagged unprofessional? I recently heard someone say that I am curious if there is truth to it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Posteo is great for business. It's a professional and competent company that respects your privacy to a good degree, and has a clue about security. In a sense it's MORE professional than trying to DIY, unless you really know what you're doing. I would feel encouraged to see a business use Posteo when I receive the email. It tells me that your business probably cares a little about security and/or privacy and possibly the environment too. Total kudos for using Posteo from me.

What I think is completely unprofessional is to use your ISP's address for business email. The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site. You won't get my business. I'll go anywhere else no matter how inconvenient.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The number one unprofessional business move, in my opinion, is to have your business website on Facebook/Meta, Twitter or any other enshitified corporate social media site.

Makes sense, but what if I had my website linked to Mastodon, and I had an Onion version as well, and ... you can pay me in crypto if you want.. ๐Ÿ™‚..

How professional do you think that would be ? If at all ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. I could be happy to purchase if given more/better options. In fact, having the ability to do business from different platforms or self host is smart. Not having all your eggs in one basket is preferable. I was speaking more to people/businesses that rely on Facebook as their singular point of business. And my pet peeve that frustrates to the maximum is business support solely on X/Twit - That is so low effort and unprofessional.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have never once been on Facebook... And I was online a decade before it existed.

Same with Twitter.

In fact, my PiHole blocks both of them.

If you only do business through them, you're telling me all I need to know about you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Any idea if Posteo allows their service with your own domain?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Posteo doesn't, IIRC. But Zoho, for instance, does allows you to use many custom domains and it's like 10 โ‚ฌ/year.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Last time I looked it didn't -https://posteo.de/en/site/faq. However, Tuta does - https://tuta.com/blog/posts/own-domain-email. To refocus on OP's question, I would be happy to get a "professional business email" from a Posteo address.