Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

[james]

On 2/1/20 5:08 PM, Jack wrote:
> Relying on the collective experience and advice of the group here.
>
> As may be obvious to many of you, the address this message is sent from
> "...@×××××××××××××××××.net" isn't really a fully functional address.
> Email sent to that address will be forwarded by the sourceforge system
> to a personal address I specify.� When I send a message "From: " that
> address, however, I cannot send it through the sourceforge system, as I
> don't actually have an email account with them.� Currently, I send it
> through my gmail account.� That works because I added that address in my
> gmail Settings under "Accounts and Import" /� "Send mail as:".� To set
> it up, gmail sends a message to that address, and I click on a link in
> the message to prove it does come to me.� That's been working find for a
> long time, but, ...
>
> I'm trying to move away from gmail.� Especially for mailing lists like
> this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I get the
> message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in my inbox
> because it's a duplicate of a message already in my sentbox.
>
> I do have an email account with privateemail.com (thorough
> namecheap.com) but they are unable or unwilling to have a similar
> setup.� I'm not even sure they actually understand what I'm asking of
> them, but I've wasted more than enough time trying.
>
> So - I'm asking if anyone can recommend an email service provider that
> understands this and will let me set it up.� I have my own domain, but
> namecheap.com does seem willing to have the appropriate DNS record point
> to a different email provider.� At this point, I'm not interested in
> running my own email server.� I currently only need two mailboxes, maybe
> a small number more in the future, but this is personal, not
> commercial.� I don't need to do bulk emails, maybe up to a dozen or so
> recipients.� I do NOT expect it to be free, but cost is at least some
> consideration.� I don't need huge storage limits, as although I use IMAP
> access when on the road, when I'm home, I use POP3 to download
> everything.� I'd also like at least minimal control over spam filtering,
> mainly to let almost anything through for me to filter locally.� If
> privateemail.com has false positives for everything from some sender
> (such as ups.com, for example) I need to open a ticket with them to add
> a whitelist.� No such thing as clicking on "Not spam" and apparently no
> intent to ever do so.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Jack

Hello Jack et al.,

WE all feel your pain, as the deceptions and folks with nefarious 
intentions, has just exploded. My suggestion is that WE all discuss and 
figure out a gentoo centric solution, that is installed, managed and 
enhanced by options, all on a Gentoo centric framework. I'm almost ready 
to get static IPs and roll my own via sendmail (really that desperate, 
are we James?).............

Today, I ran across an interesting system that might just work, only it 
needs to be 'gentoo centric' imho.


'Heimdall, an open-source personal email guardian'

https://medium.com/@fabianterh/how-i-built-heimdall-an-open-source-personal-email-guardian-68e306d172d1


So, my suggestion is that we have folks interested 'chime in' with 
issues, ideas and practical suggestions, so we, the Gentoo community 
solve this, once and for all.

I'm all in. Cause yesterday, I received false email from some jerk 
posing as 'Credit Karma'; really, they did a pretty good job, except 
Credit Karma doe snot send out unsolicited emails to non-customers, or 
at least that's
what they say over the phone.

Beware::   multipleapp@×××××××××××××××××××××××××××.com

So shall WE solve, test, debug, rinse-repeat, a solution, as 
brothers-in-need, or keep fighting this crap individually ?


curiously,
James