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