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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Eray Aslan <eras@g.o> wrote: |
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> The correct solution is to stop forwarding spam and the easiest way is |
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> just stopping forwarding. There are valid policy reasons for not going |
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> that route but continuing forwarding because it is too difficult to |
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> configure gmail is, well, not something I'd be comfortable with. I do |
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> expect more from gentoo devs. |
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Configuring gmail to use POP isn't hard per-se, but it has a lot of limitations. |
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First, there is latency - they basically poll when they want to poll. |
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I find myself hitting refresh all the time as a result so that I don't |
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wait an hour to get my mail. |
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Another issue is that they won't use TLS/SSL unless they trust the |
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certificate, and there is no way to override this. So, your options |
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are credentials possibly going out in plaintext, pay for a |
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certificate, or use a cert provider who won't revoke a certificate |
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even after pointing to private keys posted on github. I suspect this |
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won't be a problem for retrieving mail from Gentoo, but it is one of |
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the reasons that I was desperately trying to forward mail to them. In |
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the end I ended up switching to polling as a result of DKIM and |
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GMail's spam filters. |
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I find email an incredibly frustrating experience all-around. It |
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works great as long as everybody doesn't use anybody for hosting who |
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isn't in the top-10 provider list, and doesn't use a mailing list. |
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Otherwise you get snared in the network of anti-spam tactics that only |
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spammers have the time to figure out how to avoid. |
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Rich |
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