axbom,
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Does anyone know of an email service, add-on or tutorial that allows for mimicing the one feature that intrigues me about HEY e-mail: opt-in for receiving emails from someone.

i.e. the default would be that someone who is not yet an approved sender ends up in a separate inbox where I have to confirm if I want to keep receiving email from them or not. I think HEY calls this ’the screener’.

Or if you’ve tried this fature and don’t like it, that would be cool to hear about as well.

gMoon,
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@axbom there was something similar called Gated that required "unknown senders" to donate to charity in order to get into your inbox.

But, they closed as a company in September 2023. However, they open-sourced their code.

You can see an archived copy of their site at https://web.archive.org/web/20220420145949/https://www.gated.com/. Their current site is https://www.gated.com/. Their open-sourced code is on Github at https://github.com/get-gated/.

axbom,
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@gMoon Very cool! Thanks for sharing all those links!

passim,
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@axbom @CatherineFlick I use and like Fastmail and use the VIP feature like that.

jay,
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@axbom I do exactly that with @fastmail! I have three contact groups: "Feed", "Paper Trail", and "Screener".

Emails from contacts that are in neither group land in my Inbox.

Mails from contacts in the "Feed", "Paper Trail" or "Screener" group receive the respective label.

I've set the labels to be hidden in the sidebar of the Fastmail Web UI/App, when there are no emails associated with them.

Works like a charm!

axbom,
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@jay @fastmail Excellent, this sounds like a very clean setup, thanks for sharing!

KimSJ,
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@axbom I think you could set this up on most platforms, albeit with a little faffing about… regard your inbox as the pending tray. Create a folder for approved addresses, and set up a rule to move incoming mail from approved addresses to that folder. Then just add new approved addresses to that rule. Certainly possible to do that on thunderbird, for example.

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