Three weeks ago I pushed an update that restores email capacity for account related emails like registration and password update (crucially).

Fixed the account related emails

I also lost access to the last kanji.koohii gmail address. I believe the account was flagged every few months due to using their free SMTP. Even though I was using 2FA so I could use their authentication key or whatever it was. I was able to restore access to the account several times with my phone but no longer.

So I was tired of those shenanigans - not to mention users could not retrieve a new password! - and have implemented Sendgrid's Emails. The email sender is domain verified, so they come from "Kanji Koohii" account at koohii.com which is better than the gmail address I used previously.

Spam bot troubles

So far so good three weeks in. There was one day which peaked at the free tier limit, because of spam bots!

I had to figure out how to obtain the CIDR (IP block range) for troublesome IPs. ipcountryblocks was my go to but it no longer works. Eventually I found I can get the IP range from an ARIN lookup, and then use a php function I found on StackOverflow to give me a clean CIDR range that I can add to the Apache htaccess file. So far so good.

Change of main contact email

As for getting in touch currently as you can see on the contact page the emails can be sent to a yahoo com address. I'm still trying to figure out that part. Using a gmail address was easier since I can check multiple accounts on my phone.

If I did not reply to you in the last couple months and you sent a suggestion or a bug report there's a good chance I did not see the email, I'm sorry about that!

If anyone has suggestions as to what would be a good way to manage emails let me know!