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On November 8, 2016 9:52:51 PM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 08/11/2016 22:00, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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>> On 2016-11-08 13:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Why are you even trying to do this yourself? |
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>> Because mail is by far the best digital communication channel I know |
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>for |
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>> me (with my preference for text and logic over image and fuzzy |
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>feeling), |
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>> and so I want to do it as close to perfect as I can. |
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>Why do you think you can do mail mail than your ISP can do mail? |
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When said ISP starts blocking legitimate email from people I correspond with on a regular basis who use gmail and hotmail, they become as reliable as old fashioned mail services have become. |
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And the blocking is done silently and can't be disabled. |
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That already made me start looking for alternatives. |
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When they then refused to relay emails using my own domain even though I am inside their network and am not sending large amounts of email. I ended up using those alternatives. |
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I would prefer to use my ISP to handle the mail deliveries, but when they are this incompetent.... |
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Joost |
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. |
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