Self-Hosting saasmail on Cloudflare Workers: The Journey, the Gotchas, and the Verdict
A hands-on review and technical setup guide for saasmail—a self-hosted, $5/month open-source alternative to Zendesk running on Cloudflare Workers.
🇨🇠Switzerland vs. 🇩🇪 Germany: The Email Privacy Jurisdiction Breakdown
A legal and technical analysis comparing Swiss (FADP) and German (GDPR/TTDSG) privacy jurisdictions, court-ordered logging compulsions, MLAT data requests, and zero-knowledge limitations for email hosting.
Serverless Self-Hosted Email: A Deep Dive into Mailflare
A hands-on review of Mailflare—the serverless, self-hosted custom domain email platform built on Cloudflare Workers, D1, and R2. Here is how it performs, deployment permission pitfalls, and setup costs.
Zoho Mail Free Consumer Tier: Hands-On Technical Review
A technical review of the Zoho Mail free consumer tier: a 100% ad-free experience with unmatched developer tools, contrasting its functional protocol limitations against legacy ad-financed webmail providers.
Mail.co.uk - Adverts Galore
An unvarnished teardown of Mail.co.uk's FreeMail tier: how aggressive display ads, telco-level Utiq tracking, forced marketing newsletters, and strict German contract terms undercut their privacy claims.
Apple, It’s Time to Take Webmail Seriously
Apple’s hardware ecosystem is world-class, but iCloud Mail feels abandoned. Here is why Apple needs to rebuild webmail—and a concept UI that proves it.
Swissmail.org – Erm, No Thanks
Swissmail promises "exceptional" Swiss privacy, but broken trial links and Meta and TikTok tracking pixels tell a very different story. Here is my breakdown.
Microsoft Outlook & Exchange: The Enterprise Workhorse (And How It Compares)
A technical look at paid Outlook and Exchange Online, its security and compliance strengths, and how it compares to Google Workspace and Fastmail.