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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] 40 points 9 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 9 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 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 9 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Anything beside the own domain is unprofessional, if you run a business.

As an individual i think it speaks for yourself as caring about the environment and privacy.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I actually don't care about the environment and I realize email is never going to be private. I like Posteo as it avoids the feature creep.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's like the green/ blue bubbles thing. Anyone who overemphasizes superficial things like that aren't worth your time. What matters in a professional environment is the value behind the communique. If the real bill gates messages you from a Hotmail account, you'ld probably want to pay attention.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Only if he promises to bequeath half of his fortune if you pay a small fee to help him set up a local bank account in your country to move his monies out because he hates Biden.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Emails like [email protected] is fine for random internet shitposting, but if I had to use cockmail for anything involving real life responsibilities I'd go for domains like airmail.cc or firemail.cc at registration.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I use one from the first group as my work email ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

To be honest, I am tempted to use one of the edgier domain names in my CV just to see their reaction. I'm tired of faking everything's perfect just so the crazies at LinkedIn doesn't send my cv to trash bin.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

As a personal email its just fine. I've had people comment on the fact that my "[email protected]" made me seem more professional than others using whatever @gmail.com address they could get their hands on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

People said Gmail was unprofessional in 2005, don't worry too much about what business majors think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

If there's one thing the corporate world takes seriously, it's concerns about the Googleopoly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It isn't a good move.

A domain name can cost as little as ยฃ10, similarly most email services cost ~ยฃ5-ยฃ15 per person per month. Its normally pretty easy to link a domain to an email provider and doesn't cost anything other than time.

If a company can't be bothered to implement the most basic online branding people will make their assumptions and some will filter your company out because of it. With the cost to implement so low (e.g. ยฃ160 per year), even the loss/gain of a single customer would justify it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's great and all, for tech sectors, but I'm not going to judge Joe's Landscaping or Carol's Cupcakes for using Gmail and quite frankly Joe and Carol are probably better off missing out on those clients.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Some people aren't tech savvy enough to do that. (Think independent contractors or musicians)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

No, not at all.

That sounds like some often parroted but never actually a thing job hunting advice from the late 90's.