I just did this on a website that said my Simplelogin alias isn’t allowed for signup, but changed it successfully after the fact from a disposable email.

It’s a lot of work to keep the spammers out and make sure gmail, etc. will accept your messages and not mark them as spam. A brand-new mail system with no history looks a lot like a new spam operation to them.

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Meg, not that difficult really. There are Docker based services that do it all self-contained.

Google is easy. Microsoft is a PAIN

True. Glad I didn’t continue with it, thanks!

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