Paul O'Brien (CBCI) works in Corporate Resilience and writes about email privacy, infrastructure, and software systems. He delivers independent technical teardowns and practical guides to owning your digital footprint.
QuickInbox.app promises anonymous, tracking-free disposable email. Look closer and you will find PostHog analytics loading on the first page view, no privacy policy or contact details, and paid plans that link your inbox to a real bank card
Amazon SES strips away SaaS markups to offer bare-metal email infrastructure. Here is a practical deep dive into how SES works under the hood, key deliverability features like DKIM and Custom MAIL FROM, and what it takes to run high-volume email at scale.
Email has been stagnant for years. After testing Mailflare and Agentic Inboxes, I took a deep dive into Nostr Mail (Nmail) to see if decentralised, relay-based messaging can truly replace traditional webmail—without relying on blockchains or corporate servers.
Proton Mail is excellent at keeping your messages private, but it won't keep your identity hidden. Here's what encryption can and can't protect, and the safer setup for anyone who needs real anonymity.
A hands-on review of Agentic Inbox on Cloudflare—testing its blazingly fast webmail UI, Zero Trust auth, and surprisingly unobtrusive AI drafting.
A hands-on review and technical setup guide for saasmail—a self-hosted, $5/month open-source alternative to Zendesk running on Cloudflare Workers.
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.
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.
