On Sun, 02 Feb 2020 14:24:47 -0500, Jack wrote: > > Hello Ian, > > On 2020.02.02 13:36, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-02-01 17:08, Jack wrote: > > > >> 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. > > > > For your immediate problem, my answer would depend on whether > > you're OK interacting with email entirely through the browser, > > or you are a classicist like myself and want to use a "real" > > email client like mutt or thunderbird. > I absolutely detest webmail, and use it only when absolutely > necessary, which in many cases is to look at the SPAM folder to > mark something as Not Spam. I use IMAP when I'm away from home > (set up on android phone, android tablet, and Artix Linux > laptop.) At home, I pull everything by POP3. Before a long > trip, I rsync my whole mail hierarchy from my desktop to the > laptop, in case I need to reference any older messages, although > I sometimes just go digging in the Trash folder via IMAP. > > > From your writing about gmail, I am guessing it's the former: > > you're okay with webmail. In that case, I recommend that you > > look at protonmail, tutanota and hushmail. I have used all of > > them and I still use protonmail for one of my personas :) I > > hasten to add I have _not_ checked how easy it is to mask the > > sender address at any of these. > First, I didn't choose, and do not actually like gmail. If you > don't want lots of gory details, you can skip this paragraph. > For years, I had email provided by my ISP (sbcglobal.net - not > discussing it's various sales and name changes) actually managed > by Yahoo. However, when AT&T sold their landline business in > Connecticut to Frontier, although my sbclobal.net addresses > didn't go away, they ended up in a sort of limbo - it became > impossible for me to get any support. If I called Yahoo, they > said to get support from AT&T. If I called AT&T, as soon as they > figured out I was in Connecticut, they transferred the call to > Frontier. If I called Frontier, they wouldn't help since they > didn't control that domain. About that time, my college stopped > simply providing an email forwarding service, and provided a real > email account under the alumni subdomain of the university's > domain. Unfortunately, the actual account is gmail. Once I > realized I wanted something other than that, I bought my domain > ostroff.xyz through namecheap.com. I then set up email accounts > through their provider privateemail.com. So - my current goal is > to get my x...@ostroff.xyz email hosted somewhere else. > > > The longer view though is that this will get harder and harder, > > for the reasons other people in the thread have given. google > > and company will impose their fascist anti-spam checks and they > > will get away with it because most everyone uses google and > > company, and nobody but a few geeks cares about the corner case > > of mailing lists. > Agreed. > > > <sarcasm> Who needs mailing lists when we have web forums? </sarcasm> > I absolutely agree, sarcastically or not. > > This is what writers like Jon Corbet of LWN mean by "the death > > of email". And this is why, if you are one of the geeks who do > > care, the only way to prolong your life with email is to set up > > your own server. You're already halfway there as you have your > > own domain. > I suppose that is where I will eventually end up, but right now, > I'm just not up for worrying about actually running an internet > facing service. We'll see how one of the other replies to this > thread pushes in that direction.
I do have my own server, but I have problems sending to gmail address, I never get a bounce, but the messages disappear, maybe they are in the senders spam folder, but I don't think so. For those messages I use the services of my incoming mail provider which protects me against incoming spam which would be massive for me, and also has an outgoing mail service which I don't like to use because of its strange mapping of its ip addresses to names, but the whole thing works after this strange fashion. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com