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Drive & Storage
Buying an Email Platform Mostly for the Storage
Sometimes what you want is a large mountable drive and the mailboxes are incidental. Because the plan and the add-on price separately, the cheapest route is the free tier plus capacity — this covers where that wins and where a bucket beats it.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
A Mailbox Per Device: Email as a Machine Interface
Backup appliances, monitors and controllers all emit alerts by SMTP because that was the integration available when they were designed. This covers why one shared address degrades, what per-device addressing fixes, and when an alias does the job instead.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
When to Upgrade Your Email Plan, and What Actually Changes
Comparison tables are written to sell the top tier. The useful question is which limit you will hit first and what it costs to stop hitting it — this walks the boundaries in the order people actually reach them.
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Alexey Bulygin
Drive & Storage
Reselling Email Storage as Part of What You Sell
Most agencies leave storage on the table because wholesale options need engineering or are priced per seat. This covers the real cost base, the three places margin actually comes from, and what you take on by becoming the vendor of record.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
Email for Every Member, Student or Volunteer
A choir with 200 singers, a professional body with 3,000 members, a school with 900 pupils — none can pay a seat fee per person. This covers what changes when they do not have to, and the three predictable problems nobody plans for.
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Alexey Bulygin
Webmail & Productivity
Send as Multiple Addresses From One Mailbox
One person is often several senders — sales to prospects, accounts to suppliers, their own name to everyone else. This covers identities versus aliases, replying as the address that was written to, and why sending as a domain you do not host fails silently.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
Forty Domains, One Account, and No Spreadsheet
Nothing breaks at forty domains — per-domain work simply becomes the job, so DNS checking gets skipped and a broken record sits unnoticed for months. This covers what turns collective, the plan limits, and the two cases against consolidating.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
Email Ingest Over IMAP: A Mailbox as an Application Input
Suppliers send invoices, machines emit alerts, forms deliver submissions — all to an address nobody reads programmatically. This covers the five decisions that make an ingest script durable, and when a webhook is plainly the better answer.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
Webmail 2FA Lockout: Getting a Colleague Back In
Phones get replaced every three years and authenticator codes rarely come across. This covers resetting the second factor without touching the password, why out-of-band verification is the step that matters, and the two cases that only look like lockouts.
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Alexey Bulygin
Operations Playbook
Mailbox Storage Quotas: Stopping One Archive Starving the Rest
Agency permits a million mailboxes and provides 200 GB, so storage is the real constraint rather than the count. This covers sizing quotas in tiers, what happens at the limit, and the three fixes when the pool is genuinely full.
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Alexey Bulygin
Email Forwarding
Parked Domain Email: Catching Mail on Names You Don't Use
A project that never launched, the name from before the rebrand, the misspelling bought defensively. This covers what happens to mail sent to those names now, the two pieces that fix it, when a domain alias beats a catch-all, and how noisy the first month really is.
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Alexey Bulygin
Business Email
Set Up Mailboxes Without Ever Sharing a Password
Everyone knows emailing a new password is wrong and nearly everyone does it. Invites remove the excuse — this covers why shared credentials break accountability, how two-factor fits into the same moment, and the two cases that still need care.
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Alexey Bulygin