Search results for tag #email
Was wondering if anyone knows this MTA (Stalwart) or has experiences with it. Found it totally randomly, never heard of it before despite knowing quite a bit about mail subsystems, and if the docs are correct, it's the kind of too-good-to-be-true software. Pure Rust and brings everything onboard (at least I) need.
is there any VPS provider more chad than #Contabo ?? https://arcanechat.me VPS went down today, the VPS will simply fail to start from the Control Panel, this WAY TOO OFTEN happens during weekends or holidays, their status page says nothing about any problems or maintenance, and if you try to write to support they will tell you "sorry it is weekend, your message will not even be stored" so I guess arcanechat.me will be down the whole weekend >:-/
#ArcaneChat #sysadmin #vps #selfhosting #email
I sent my first #email msg through #gmail on Sep 13, 2004. We're more than 20 years later now and it's time to move on.
I registered my own domain this time and I'm looking at alternatives like @fastmail , @Tutanota , @protonprivacy, and @mailfence .
It's good to see that they all have mastodon accounts, although not all of them seem active anymore?
If anyone has another good suggestion then please let me know!
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* #kitshn for #Tandoor update mixup
* #etchdroid 2.0 now w/ #MaterialDesign
* #KOReader for more devices
* fight #quantum with #Tuta #postquantum #email and #calendar
* 20 years of #git, get #forgejo and #gitnex
* #OrganicMaps community open letter
* #ToSDR to the rescue
+ 8 new apps
+ 92 updates
& 4 archived
Git clone this post: https://f-droid.org/2025/04/17/twif.html
#Tuta: one month free trial to celebrate #WorldQuantumDay
Critique de « Run Your Own Mail Server » (5 étoiles) : best email how to i've read
Back in 2006 I wanted to self host my mail. After two weeks of feeling with a bunch of howtos from the linux documentation project I gave up. That was also probably due to me getting free email hosting from google. When that offer ended, I thought about self hosting again , this time documentation was way better. This book is huge howtos and covers everything email related. The protocols, the history. It also provides exemples, sequencing : what to do first and then. I've been using email and managing some email related domains for 25ish years. I've learned a lot and would recommend that every sysadmin reads this book.
#email #sysadmin #book #goodread #bookreview #bookstodon #ryoms
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Michael W. Lucas: Run Your Own Mail Server (Hardcover, english language, Titled Windmill Press)
Our new Account Hub, a streamlined email setup wizard, is in Daily and landing in Beta at the end of April. Learn how our engineers and designers worked together to make it happen, where a similar experience will be next, and get a live walkthrough in our latest Community Office Hours. 🧙
#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/video-the-new-account-hub/
The #ThunderBird project is launching pro services to help fund development;
"It is our goal to eventually have a similar offering so that a 100% open source, freedom-respecting alternative ecosystem is available for those who want it. We don’t even care if you use our services with Thunderbird apps, go use them with any mail client. No lock-in, no restrictions – all open standards. That is freedom."
#RyanSipes, April 4, 2025
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/
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My blog post on #NNCPNET, the #email network atop #NNCP : https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10768-announcing-the-nncpnet-email-network
@jeremiah_ @elb #NNCPNET, the new #NNCP-based email network, now has a bidirectional, opt-in, Internet #email bridge! https://salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/docker-nncpnet-mailnode/-/wikis/bridge/intro
This gates Internet email to/from NNCP. The bridge is off by default. It is a full participant in #SPF, #DKIM, #DMARC, and #TLS in both directions.
Yes, now you can get Internet email straight to your #RaspberryPi ! (And even without this, your Pis can email each other!)
Fuck #Google and the garbage imitation of IMAP that they foist on users & fuck their #SecurityTheater of demanding CASA audits of every IMAP client before they allow it to do OAuth2.
If you use #GMail (or Google Workspace) you are actively supporting the enclosure of #email. Google does not want independent standards-compliant MUAs to touch their mail system. Google wants all of its users using their shit web interface or their shoddy apps. They want to own your email.
"Google is updating Gmail to allow enterprise users to send encrypted messages to any inbox in just a few clicks. Google says it’s developed a new encryption model that, unlike the current encryption feature on Gmail, doesn’t require senders or recipients to use custom software or exchange encryption certificates.
The feature is rolling out in beta starting today, and will initially be available for Google enterprise users to send encrypted emails to other Gmail users within the same organization. Google says this will expand to emails sent to any Gmail inbox “in the coming weeks,” and to inboxes from any third-party email provider “later this year.”
Gmail’s current encryption feature, based on the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol, can already be used to send external emails. Doing so requires the recipient to have S/MIME configured and complete multiple steps with the sender before emails can be securely exchanged, however."
https://www.theverge.com/news/640422/google-gmail-email-encryption-enterprise-beta
Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/gmail-e2e-is-as-terrible-as-expected/
Useful service to "test" the "quality" of your sent mails:
https://www.mail-tester.com/
"We needed a cheap, simple and efficient way to quickly test the quality of our own newsletters.
We simply built on our own tool. Now we're sharing it for free via our web-interface and enable you to include our tests in your own app and whitelist our service by creating an account."
@beasts do you know it? ;)
Our team explains Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro
(what are they? why develop them?), the values behind them, and why the core desktop and mobile apps will never be behind a paywall. Read more and get the facts beneath the hype: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/thundermail-and-thunderbird-pro-services/
I've used Thunderbird and its previous incarnations back to Netscape Mail. It's hard to imagine my email or calendar without it!
Also, what a cute bird ❤️
https://updates.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/128.0/apr25/donate/
@thunderbird #foss #opensource #donate #email
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A screenshot of the thunderbird webpage which is linked in this post, including a cartoon blue bird that's smiling while holding a white envelope with a pink heart sticker sealing it, and other pink hearts floating around in the air, being pulled by air and the bird's path through it.
I said it before on Mastodon. I'm reposting this again. Comparing #DeltaChat and #Matrix together, if you want hassle free and consistent messenger for private #E2EE chats, don't go for Matrix. DeltaChat is way better.
However, if you want something like a public forum, or a public chatroom, don't go for DeltaChat. Matrix is way better suited for that. And DeltaChat does not support public groups at all. In DeltaChat groups, there is no admin or moderator and everyone have got permission to remove or add the others.
I think I have to write a longer post on my personal blog about these two, comparing them together.
PS: Another Matrix encryption bug few minutes ago triggered repost of this.
#Element #IM #Messenger #Email #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware #free_software #decentralization #decentralized
The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:
Finally! Mozilla Thunderbird challenges Gmail with its own email service. And that's just the beginning...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/04/01/finally-mozilla-thunderbird-takes-on-gmail-with-new-email-service/
Troy Hunt: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
#Tuta birthday sale: 62% off Legend plan
"[We are a]n age old Digital Marketing Agency operating over 10 years in the global market
having its main office at AZ, USA. We exist for such a long only because we follow ethical business practices"
Yes, sure. VERY ethical, right? You'd never place tracking pixels into your mails for example, would you?
"Do you want me to send…" – Are you kidding? No, of course. I want you to stop that 🤦♂️
#Tracking #email #SEO #privacy
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screenshot from the source of the email, showing a hidden tracking pixel – clearly visible as such by a) the domain "*track.appspot.com" and b) the fact that it's very important to not be shown ("display:none; display:none!important")
Cybercriminals Exploit #CSS to Evade #Spam Filters and Track #Email Users' Actions
https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/cybercriminals-exploit-css-to-evade.html
I love my email client because I've set all my emails to Plain text view and haven't looked back since. I also never have to see badly formatted newsletters again! Now, I get emails that say this, which is honestly more than fine by me! I'd rather get this then some badly formatted email.
However, your email software can't display HTML emails. You can view the newsletter by clicking here:
URL GOES HERE.
Much cleaner reading experience now!
I thought I had seen it all when it comes to mail delivery and security issues.
But this morning I was introduced to the fact that there are Exchange admins who will implement a rule that all incoming mail from outside their own organization should be flagged as potentially dangerous and presented to the user with the option to block sender and no option to mark the message or the sender as valid.
Yes, that for every single message.
Domain registrar #Porkbun now offers #ProtonMail for custom domain emails
Celebrating one year of quantum-safe #encryption in #Tuta Mail & Tuta #Calendar
What are two security risks of sending confidential files via #email?
https://adguard.com/en/blog/what-are-two-security-risks-of-sending-confidential-files-via-email.html
Can anyone walk me through setting up email through @nextcloud ?
I have my own domains (1 for work, 1 for personal).
As in, walk me through it in an "imagine you're explaining to a 3 year old" way.
I used to be able to figure this stuff out but autistic burnout and covid brain fog have destroyed my ability to thing entirely.
And here is the list of email addresses for all DOGE employees (that we know of).
You can see a thread about where it came from and its verification here:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3ljpyyjzfis2l
HT: Alejandra Caraballo over on BlueSky
#Doge #MuskRats #AppaMuskRatchiks #Email #ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Corruption #Government #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA #Resist #Resistance
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A slightly out of focus list of members of Doge and their official email addresses. It would a real shame if anyone used these email addresses for anything other than legitimate questions about their government activities.
DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
In its apparent quest to cut #government spending and improve efficiency, #DOGE has fired entire #tech teams devoted to those very things.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-major-government-tech-projects-efficiency/
"The culling of the GSA’s #18F division, in particular...has crippled programs... Over the weekend, around 90 technologists at 18F were fired via a surprise #email that went out shortly before 1 am ET on Saturday."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
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DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk
In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.
by Makena Kelly
Politics
Mar 7, 2025 2:14 PM
"I’d say it cost us at least a full day’s #productivity, if not more"
https://www.muskwatch.com/i/158555627/id-say-it-cost-us-at-least-a-full-days-productivity-if-not-more
"But in an update... #OPM removed wording describing responses as “explicitly voluntary.” The new PIA states, “The consequences for failure to provide the requested #information will vary depending on the particular #email at issue.” #DonaldTrump has also said that federal employees who do not respond could lose their #jobs."
#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Government #Trump #GOP #USPol #News #US #USA
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"I’d say it cost us at least a full day’s productivity, if not more"
Elon Musk dispatched another round of emails last weekend demanding federal workers spell out five things they accomplished over the week. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — the government’s human resources wing that has been transformed into a Musk cut-out — had initially said responses were voluntary. But in an update to its privacy impact assessment (PIA) last Friday, OPM removed wording describing responses as “explicitly voluntary.” The new PIA states, “The consequences for failure to provide the requested information will vary depending on the particular email at issue.” President Donald Trump has also said that federal employees who do not respond could lose their jobs.
The scramble to respond to Musk’s email has led to inefficiencies for federal workers, including at the Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA)... Another employee at the agency told HuffPost that their managers became “mired in daily meetings to discuss ... how it was affecting employees and overall morale, and addressing whether or not any of this is legal… I’d say it cost us at least a full day’s productivity, if not more.”
Musk’s ability to simultaneously email all federal workers was described as “illegal” by a federal judge last week in a lawsuit brought by the American Federation of Government Employees. The same judge ruled that OPM has no authority to layoff federal workers.
#Tuta’s diverse team keeps growing in 2025! 🥳❤️
We are not aware of other FOSS development teams that have as extensive knowledge, both theoretical and practical, about #email and #openpgp and regularly release across all platforms for users world wide ... except for #protonmail with whose technical and security experts we discuss regularly. They are the other major game in town doing pervasive email encryption after all. Did you know that Proton's and delta's VCards are compatible across ecosystems and establish immediate encryption?
"email is inherently insecure, email can never be secure, it leaks a LOT of metadata and only the body is encrypted, subject can NOT be encrypted, you can NOT build a secure system on top of email"
#email #privacy #security #decentralization #e2ee #encryption #metadata #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat
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"Sure grandma, now let's get you to bed"
I keep getting errors while trying to use my uni MS account with Thunderbird. 
I don't really want to make use of the nuclear waste that it's Outlook.
Aparenty this is a known issue? Idk.
#India: Your #email and #SocialMedia account can be accessed by income #tax officers starting financial year 2026-27 in these cases
Not sure which e-mail provider to go for? 📩
Most of them offer free accounts to get you started.
Just create an account and have a play around with the interface. Check all the settings and filter options to see what they offer. Send yourself an email from your current inbox to see how it looks and how long it takes to arrive.
And remember, there are full teams working to build these products. It costs money. A lot! 💰
Imagine being on their team, really happy with every new client that's come from a competitor. 🥳
Gmail was launched in 2004. It took 20 years to get to where it is now.
Give a chance to little tech companies that are trying hard to build a modern ethical alternative without having illegal revenues like Google. They need money to pay developers, devops, security team, project managers, analysts, designers, audits, HR and marketing teams, accessibility experts, etc. It's expensive to hire professionals who can go fast, safe and scale.
Building digital products is hard, complex... and beautiful. 😍
Give them a chance to thrive. They need consumers and followers. Don't attack them if a button isn't working. Send them constructive feedback.
And if you like it after testing, you can always recommend them to your family, friends and followers. 😉
#europeanalternatives #email #ethics #technology
Just got an email in reply to message sent a whole decade ago. The reply is timely and relevant, and worked despite all kinds of infrastructure and tech stack changes on the parts of everyone involved. Proof, not that we needed it, that Soshul Meeja and web forums will never be able to replace good old-fashioned email. #infrastructure #email #LongTermIT
@tk @ezmyrelda @feld our general approach is that we only use a reasonable *subset* of the standards. Both #email and #OpenPGP specifications contain a lot of flexibility that has caused many past projects to drown in complexity. We avoid that by thinking about and steering developments starting from the desired UX/UI we want to offer. UX/UI-first if you will ;)
@lns 99.9% of my email communication is e2e encrypted, I am using #DeltaChat since years, never managed to actually use encrypted email in any other way, ex. why should my mom learn how to use GPG? meanwhile she and several family members that are new to phones are sending #encrypted #email to me every day without even realizing it
Have you already switched your Gmail to a new e-mail provider?
If no, what are you waiting for? 😀
If yes, which one? Was it difficult to migrate? Do you like the design of your new providers interface? Do you find it easy to use? Are you happy with it?
Tell us more about your e experience!
#boycott #BuyFromEU #degoogle #gmail #email
| Yes, full migration (Gmail deleted): | 1 |
| Yes, but I'll keep my Gmail for a while: | 2 |
| No, but I plan to do soon: | 0 |
| Not yet, I don't know which alternative to choose: | 1 |
| No, I'm satisfied with Gmail: | 1 |
BREAKING: Elon’s Epic Email Rake-Stomp Finally Explained!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-elons-epic-email-rakestomp-finally-explained
"On January 27th, a lawyer... filed a #lawsuit... pursuant to several federal laws over GWES [Govt Wide Email System]... under these various federal laws, if #DOGE /OPM wanted to set up this new #email system... they had to make various promises & representations about how GWES would be used...anything to do with the #GWES emails would be voluntary. You can look, not look..."
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On January 27th, a lawyer named Kel McClanahan filed a lawsuit on behalf of anonymous (“Jane Doe”) civil servants pursuant to several federal laws over GWES... McClanahan argued that under these various federal laws, if DOGE/OPM wanted to set up this new email system they had to jump through a bunch of different hoops. But the DOGE folks don’t care for hoops. We know this, right? So to get out of that they had to make various promises and representations about how GWES would be used.
One of those was the PIA, which, among others things, represented that anything to do with the GWES emails would be voluntary. You can look, not look, respond, not respond, etc. There’s also something called the E-Government Act. That requires an agency to produce a privacy impact report. And once you do that the PIA is binding. So people can rely on it... And critically, the DOJ lawyers who were representing OPM (and in effect DOGE) on the case made those representations themselves. Basically, they vouched for those representations being true. And that, along with other promises, is why GWES got the green light.
That second part is important. There’s what the PIA does on its own and there’s the repercussions of those DOJ lawyers using it as part of their arguments in court and vouching for it being true. If it’s not, those lawyers can be sanctioned by the judge.
Elon Musk Thinks Democrats Should Love DOGE
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-democrats/681829/
"The #Clinton administration’s Reinventing #Government initiative... took place over a 5-yr period... & consulted a wide array of experts rather than bursting into an unfamiliar domain with a handful of unqualified lackeys hopped up on conspiracy theories...
when [Clinton] offered buyouts to the federal workforce, it was done through an act of #Congress, not an #email"
#Musk #Doge #Coup #Trump #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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Who could have a problem with efficiency? Didn’t the Clinton administration undertake a big reform effort to overhaul the government? Well, sure. But the similarities end there.
The Clinton administration’s Reinventing Government initiative, led by Vice President Al Gore, took place over a five-year period. Gore carefully studied the federal government and consulted a wide array of experts rather than bursting into an unfamiliar domain with a handful of unqualified lackeys hopped up on conspiracy theories.
Clinton and Gore put their policy ideas through normal channels of legal process and public scrutiny—when they offered buyouts to the federal workforce, it was done through an act of Congress, not an email—whereas Musk, by canceling spending appropriated by Congress, has repeatedly violated the plain text of federal law and the Constitution, if you care about that sort of thing. Musk clearly does not—and an aversion to wild illegality and rank amateurism is a better explanation for Democrats’ opposition than them no longer caring about government efficiency.
Late Night Laughs at DOGE’s Work Force Demand
“It’s like the #government is being run by BuzzFeed,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday about Elon Musk’s work-tracking request to federal employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/arts/television/late-night-elon-musk-emails.html
"“Yep, they need to respond with five accomplishments from the last week. Federal workers wrote back: ‘I received this #email, I opened this email, I read this email, I laughed at this email, and I deleted this email.’” — JIMMY FALLON"
#Resist #Resistance #ElonMusk #Musk #News #US
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Best of Late Night
Late Night Laughs at DOGE’s Work Force Demand
“It’s like the government is being run by BuzzFeed,” Jimmy Kimmel said on Monday about Elon Musk’s work-tracking request to federal employees.
What I Did Last Week: An Email to Elon Musk
I counted several Sieg Heils on the #CPAC stage, then did a number of things to purge that from my memory.
https://newrepublic.com/article/191989/email-elon-musk-cpac-salute
"Instead of federal employees answering hr@opm.gov—which I gather is an email account set up exclusively to transmit your petty harassment—I’d like to see ordinary citizens crash it with a tsunami of messages telling you how they spent their last week...That email address, again, is hr@opm.gov"
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...You don’t even run the Dept of Govt Efficiency, according to a White House filing in a lawsuit ... You also don’t run the Office of Personnel Management (which sent out that email at your behest). Indeed, you possess “no actual authority to make government decisions,” according to Joshua Fisher, director of the White House Office of Administration. Speaking in Miami two days later, Trump contradicted that: “I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency and put a man named Elon Musk in charge.” That White House of yours has some message-control problem!
What I hope we’re seeing, Elon, is the beginning of the end of your government career. On Monday, even the Office of Personnel Management advised government managers to “exclude personnel from this expectation at their discretion,” even as you tweeted that “subject to the discretion of the president,” a second email would be sent and “failure to respond a second time will result in termination.” Failure to respond a second time won’t result in diddly. Shame on you for scaring federal workers by pretending that it will.
Instead of federal employees answering hr@opm.gov—which I gather is an email account set up exclusively to transmit your petty harassment—I’d like to see ordinary citizens crash it with a tsunami of messages telling you how they spent their last week. Or loading it up with other spam. That email address, again, is hr@opm.gov.
Despite our efforts (such as those described in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html btw that number rolled past 3 million some time back), *some* #spam will occasionally make it to an inbox.
Today I offer a prime sample: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogpix/20250227_keelygz@vip.126.com_root@skapet.bsdly.net_Conditioner_etc._Inquiry.txt #spamtraps #cybercrime #mail #email #smtp #scams #greytrapping
Mass Chaos as Trump Officials Tell Workers to Ignore Elon Musk’s Email
Some federal agencies are telling employees to forget about that ominous email ultimatum from #ElonMusk.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191853/agencies-workers-ignore-elon-musk-email-ultimatum
"Musk is exercising some kind of power play across the federal #government with his demand. It remains to be seen whether others in the Trump administration, including the president himself, will ever push back"
#Musk #5Bullets #Email #Coup #Trump #Corruption #Politics #USPol #News #US #USA
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Mass Chaos as Trump Officials Tell Workers to Ignore Elon Musk’s Email
Some federal agencies are telling employees to forget about that ominous email ultimatum from Elon Musk.
Hafiz Rashid
February 24, 2025 / 9:16 a.m. ET
OPM’s Own Guidance Says Fed Employees Never Have to Respond to the Elon Emails
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/opms-own-guidance-says-fed-employees-never-have-to-respond-to-the-elon-emails
"new system [created by #Doge] was given the name Government-Wide Email System (GWES). On February 5th, 2025... OPM published this document... in sections 4.2 and 4.3, federal government employees are never obligated to respond to any GWES emails and are under no obligation to share any information."
#ElonMusk #Musk #5Bullets #email #GWES #OPM #Privacy #Security #Government #News #USA
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Screen shot of the Privacy Impact Assessment for the Government Wide Email System (GWES) page 7-8.
Federal Workers Are Trolling Elon Musk’s Latest Attempt to Fire Them
Elon Musk asked federal employees to tell him what they did the previous week.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191881/elon-musk-trolled-email-federal-workers
"Elon Musk’s open-reply “What did you do last week?” email to federal employees invited a flood of fictionalized fireable offenses that hilariously undercut the unelected bureaucrat’s ultimatum to reply."
#ElonMusk #5Bullets #Email #Humor #Funny #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #USA
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Screen shot of a social media post by Jon Schwarz @schwarz
You can email Elon Musk at hr@opm.gov as many times as you want.
Re: what did you do last week?
To: hr@opm.gov
Dear Elon, Here's what | did last week:
- visited CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com
- looked up “blort” in the Urban Dictionary
- Began the Beguine
- made love to an ocelot (not gross, | am an ocelot)
- became Death, Destroyer of Worlds
| would like a promotion.
thank you,
Jon
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Screen shot of a social media post by George Conway @gtconway3d:
#Emails2DOGE
cc: HR@OPM.gov
1. Mocked and trashed Trump & his boss Elon mercilessly on TV and on social media and podcasts
2. Got my kid’s Corgi fixed so she can’t have puppies (Elon, you really need to get fixed yourself)
3. Looked up why ketamine abusers need to wear sunglasses == indoors and found a DEA pamphlet on the drug’s effect on the eyes
4. Read lots of court decisions and filings explaining how Trump & his boss Elon violated the Constitution and laws of the United States
5. Made this list and encouraged other people to make and post lists of their own to mock Trump & his boss Elon
8:31 PM - Feb 22, 2025 - 95.8K Views
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Screen shot of a social media post by Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman
Just sent my email to hr@opm.gov
To: hr@opm.gov
Subject: What | did this week
Very hungover and probably still hammered, but here goes:
1. Monday - can't remember that far back
2. Tuesday - placed a bet on a pinewood derby race
3. Wednesday - purchased Bio-Dome on DVD
4. Thursday - blackmailed someone who | lost a pinewood derby bet to
5. Friday - got in a fight at a high school basketball game
3:59 PM - Feb 23, 2025 - 313.3K Views
Elon Musk Faces Massive Lawsuit After Menacing Email Ultimatum
#ElonMusk sent an #email to every federal worker asking them to explain their accomplishments. He got sued instead.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191875/elon-musk-lawsuit-email-ultimatum-accomplishments
“No #OPM rule, regulation, policy, or program has ever, in #UnitedStates history, purported to require all federal workers to submit reports to OPM,” the #lawsuit states, calling the threat of mass terminations “one of the most massive employment frauds in the #history of this country.”
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Elon Musk Faces Massive Lawsuit After Menacing Email Ultimatum
Elon Musk sent an email to every federal worker asking them to explain their accomplishments. He got sued instead.
by Hafiz Rashid, February 24, 2025 / 12:34 p.m. ET
@sbb there is also #ArcaneChat that is a Delta Chat client also in #fdroid it comes with possibility to create free account in https://arcanechat.me #email server, the server is hardened to only ever allow encrypted email incoming and outgoing so you can't even receive spam there nor has the server ever access to unencrypted messages, the server is hosted in Germany
A message to email-sending web app developers (my setup's been accidentally stress-testing apps like yours):
If you send me automated response emails with a token, please fill the token in correctly in *both* the HTML and text formats - if you leave a handlebars-like "{{token-here}}" in the text view's URL that I click on, it might be quite a while until I realise it and I will break your automated workflow...
Please fill it correctly, or don't send it. Thanks!
@mwl The only major divergence in my setup from @mwl 's book is using submission server from dovecot instead of postfix. This makes setup simpler (and thus safer?) because I don't need to teach postfix about sasl!
I just got a message that the #Liberal Party of #WesternAustralia sent to an #email address that I created exclusively to deal with a particular energy company (Alinta). 🤔
@Tutanota an #email provider talking about alternatives to #WhatsApp and casually overlooking #DeltaChat 🧐
All the speed, power, and customization of Thunderbird in a short and sweet video perfect for viewing (and sharing) on your phone. Help us spread the word to bring Thunderbird everywhere! Thanks again to @freehive for their amazing work.
I have heard some people argue for moving away from Web-based social-media and returning to E-Mail for their social-media distribution needs.
I think a lot of people don't realize how difficult it is to do something as simple as sending out an e-mail -based newsletter.
There are a lot of hurdles in the way of your e-mail newsletter getting delivered to your subscribers.
E-Mail doesn't remove the gatekeepers or middlemen. It just replaces them with Google GMail, etc
#Microsoft: Hackers steal emails in device code #phishing attacks
AI moderation [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
I think there is a tendency to say "AI" when what people actually mean is "LLM".
("LLM" = "large language model")
AI moderation isn't new. You have been using AI moderation for decades!
Anti-spam filters are a type of AI moderation that have been in use for decades!
Most people use them. Most people don't complain about them most of the time.
AI used for moderation is NOT something new.
LLM used for moderation is something new.
Just saw someone floating around the idea of charging email subscribers, but keeping your RSS feed free. I’ve never thought about it before, but an email list actually does cost money to run, and if you really don’t want to take the time to learn how RSS works, then you need to pay to keep the mailing list alive. I don’t know how I feel about this. On the one hand, it limits people that aren’t very technology savvy and it capitalizes off of their technology ignorance enough but on the other, RSS is free for us creators. An email list is not. #Email #Newsletter #MailingList #RSS
Isn't it poetic and ironic that out of all possible time lines we are in one where #securejoin #openpgp protocols on top of the existing #email protocols offer the arguably most solidly scaling, useable, world-wide federated end-to-end encrypted messaging reality, safe against compromised #mitm servers? Hundreds of billions spend to create "the email successor" and here we are in 2025 .... #interoperable #email and #cryptography as the tortoise looking at Achilles through the back mirror :)
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Roses are read.
Violets are blue,
I chat encrypted using DeltaChat
And you should too 🥰
Happy crypto valentine!
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Violets are blue,
I chat encrypted using DeltaChat
And you should too 🥰
Happy crypto valentine!
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A poem in a screenshotted message bubble posted by adb [dev]
Roses are read.
Violets are blue,
I chat encrypted using DeltaChat
And you should too 🥰
Happy crypto valentine!
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someone told to me that now you can get a @signalapp with email and the tel number is not necessary.
i have searched but i din't find it.
do you know if it is real?
Do you use a custom domain name for your email address?
Have you noticed any additional difficulties with using newer top level domains compared to the old traditional ones? Or has it made no difference whether you use newer or older TLDs?
(Newer TLDs would be things like .social or .pizza or .world, older TLDs would be .com or .org or .net)
Asking as there seem to be conflicting reports about how much email is affected by the choice of TLD?
@nick_appleyard @shojiwax Consider registering your own domain name apart from an #email provider’s domain name. It's a little upfront work and periodic expense, but saves time and hassle when switching.
#ProtonMail’s custom domain hosting is $3.99 a month if you pay yearly, includes 15 GB of storage and 10 addresses, and a calendar: https://pr.tn/ref/0Z7R6D2AX92G
#TIL that #Thunderbird lets me set #filters to move an #email to a particular place *when* I archive it, rather than immediately! So I can still read the emails as they come in, and then hit "archive" to have them automagically filed away 📁️
There are other triggers too, besides "as soon as the email comes in" and "when I archive" that I haven't explored yet. Thunderbird rocks! 
✨️
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/maximize-your-day-make-important-messages-stand-out/
Tuta adds single-click email export to the desktop #email client
Why 10-minute email services aren’t safe — and what to use instead
Häufig erreichte mich die Frage, ob der Beitrag zu Gmail noch zutrifft – und die Antwort lautet: Ja! Google, beziehungsweise Gmail, liest weiterhin eure E-Mails. Das betrifft nicht nur eure eigenen Nachrichten, sondern auch E-Mails von Absendern, die selbst kein Gmail-Konto haben, aber an eine Gmail-Adresse senden. 👇
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/gmail-google-liest-eure-e-mails-mit/
#gmail #google #surveillance #mail #email #datenschutz #teamdatenschutz
New #Outlook's security issues: Businesses should avoid switching!
«5 Ways Delta Chat is Better than WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram»
No, @delta is not the most secure chat solution per se, but it is definitely an alternative if people send you emails because (for whatever reason) they do not use encrypted communication or use emails like chats.
💬 https://worldsage.org/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram/
#deltachat #email #whatsapp #signal #telegram #delta #chat #security #itsec
Federal Employees Sue Agency Over New Email System Allegedly Linked to Elon Musk:
The litigation shows concerns within the government over Musk's growing influence.
https://gizmodo.com/federal-employees-sue-agency-over-new-email-system-allegedly-linked-to-elon-musk-2000556737
"federal employees have sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), alleging that a newly circulated email system is actually linked to #ElonMusk...
the email system presents illegal privacy risks to employees."
#Tech #Technology #Email #Privacy #Musk #Trump #Coup #Government #Politics #Purge #News
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News headline: Tech News
Federal Employees Sue Agency Over New Email System Allegedly Linked to Elon Musk
The litigation shows concerns within the government over Musk's growing influence.
By Lucas Ropek Published January 30, 2025 | Comments (58) |
@timcox @politicer @mastodon deltachat's "chatmail" adresses quite some of classic #email flaws: https://delta.chat/en/chatmail
#FOSDEM 2025 - anyone interested into #GPG key signing?
If you're interested:
* Provide a printed snippet of your fingerprint (gpg-key2ps)
* I will send you the signing to your email (instead of uploading them to key servers [gpg-mailkeys])
* You can find my key at https://gpg.gyptazy.com and you're allowed to upload them to key servers.
* Have you passport / ID card with you to validate your identity
* I'll probably be mostly in the #BSDDevroom but you can also ping me on Matrix
Happy key signing!
#encryption #freebsd #bsd #runbsd #keysigning #keysigningparty #email #communication #conference #brussels #belgium #opensource #security
#OPM sued over #privacy concerns with new government-wide #email system
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5111199-federal-employees-sue-opm-email/
any anti-spam plugins for #thunderbird #email since it's spam features seem non-existant
What is a tracking pixel? (+How to stop #email tracking)