After an irksome hour of frobbing, I finally managed to delete a 12 year old facebook account. Password long lost, so I had to jump through MANY hoops.
If your setup is like mine, copy /etc/postfix/main.cf to a backup file FIRST. Facebook's email address for me is my personal server, which has many spam barriers (though not enough). Facebook sends its emails from a zillion different servers with different URLs - that trips up greylisting, so I deleted that stanza in /etc/postfix/main.cf . I temporarily removed ALL the spam filter stanzas. This works like connecting the sewer line through a fan into your home ventilation system. My email address ( keithl AT keithl DOT com ) has been out there for more than two decades; I am on every spam list in the solar system. I still have a copy of the very first internet email spam ever sent, from some immigration lawyers in Albuquerque IIRC. Ick. Much to clean up after my brief spam exposure ... Anyhow, I requested a password-change confirmation code from facebook, and finally found the email from facebook with the code, in a spam folder. I used it to log in to facebook (for the first time in a decade), smell the malodorous accumulation, and follow the instructions here: https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/ ... and FINALLY delete the account. A decision they allow me to change until a month from now. Mid December would be a good time for a "facebook free" party. Of course, I immediately restored /etc/postfix/main.cf I did NOT download a backup of the account, which they allegedly permit you to do. I want NOTHING from facebook (and Russian crackers, perhaps) stored on my computers. There may be many "please come back messages" from facebook in my spam folder for the next decade or two, but I hope greylisting and DKIM will stop them first. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
