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On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 17:08 -0500, Jack wrote: |
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+AD4- CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open |
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+AD4- attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is |
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+AD4- safe. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- Relying on the collective experience and advice of the group here. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- As may be obvious to many of you, the address this message is sent |
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+AD4- from |
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+AD4- +ACI-...+AEA-users.sourceforge.net+ACI- isn't really a fully functional address. |
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+AD4- Email sent to that address will be forwarded by the sourceforge |
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+AD4- system |
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+AD4- to a personal address I specify. When I send a message +ACI-From: +ACI- that |
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+AD4- address, however, I cannot send it through the sourceforge system, as |
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+AD4- I |
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+AD4- don't actually have an email account with them. Currently, I send it |
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+AD4- through my gmail account. That works because I added that address in |
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+AD4- my gmail Settings under +ACI-Accounts and Import+ACI- / +ACI-Send mail as:+ACI-. To |
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+AD4- set it up, gmail sends a message to that address, and I click on a |
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+AD4- link |
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+AD4- in the message to prove it does come to me. That's been working find |
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+AD4- for a long time, but, ... |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- I'm trying to move away from gmail. Especially for mailing lists |
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+AD4- like |
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+AD4- this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I get the |
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+AD4- message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in my inbox |
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+AD4- because it's a duplicate of a message already in my sentbox. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- I do have an email account with privateemail.com (thorough |
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+AD4- namecheap.com) but they are unable or unwilling to have a similar |
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+AD4- setup. I'm not even sure they actually understand what I'm asking of |
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+AD4- them, but I've wasted more than enough time trying. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- So - I'm asking if anyone can recommend an email service provider |
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+AD4- that |
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+AD4- understands this and will let me set it up. I have my own domain, |
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+AD4- but |
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+AD4- namecheap.com does seem willing to have the appropriate DNS record |
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+AD4- point to a different email provider. At this point, I'm not |
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+AD4- interested |
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+AD4- in running my own email server. I currently only need two mailboxes, |
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+AD4- maybe a small number more in the future, but this is personal, not |
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+AD4- commercial. I don't need to do bulk emails, maybe up to a dozen or |
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+AD4- so |
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+AD4- recipients. I do NOT expect it to be free, but cost is at least some |
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+AD4- consideration. I don't need huge storage limits, as although I use |
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+AD4- IMAP access when on the road, when I'm home, I use POP3 to download |
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+AD4- everything. I'd also like at least minimal control over spam |
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+AD4- filtering, mainly to let almost anything through for me to filter |
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+AD4- locally. If privateemail.com has false positives for everything from |
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+AD4- some sender (such as ups.com, for example) I need to open a ticket |
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+AD4- with |
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+AD4- them to add a whitelist. No such thing as clicking on +ACI-Not spam+ACI- and |
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+AD4- apparently no intent to ever do so. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- Thanks for any suggestions. |
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+AD4- |
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+AD4- Jack |
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You might talk to your ISP. A number of them offer custom email |
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hosting to businesses and will maintain the server for you, but allow |
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you a rather customized configuration. So kind of like having your own |
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server along with someone to manage it for you. |
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If you do end up running your own system, look through your options |
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thoroughly. Sure you can set up just a simple email server, but there |
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are also projects like http://citadel.org/doku.php that offer more, |
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integrated features for an experience similar to gmail, but without the |
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spying. |
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LMP |