[GTALUG] Linux friendly email providers?

[Ron / BCLUG]

Howard Gibson via talk wrote on 2023-11-22 21:06:

> Handy tip folks -- Start your emails with a line feed at the top of the 
> page. This will separate your content from the blurb corporate email 
> servers will attach warning your recipients how evil and dangerous you 
> are.

This is an interesting idea. I've seen mbox files get corrupted (all 
mailbox messages in one file, and a line like "From: " is the message 
delimiter. Terrible!)

So, blank line might help with that.


I've recently switched to using Maildir format (server *and* 
Thunderbird).  One message per file.

Thunderbird says it's not fully supported, but it works fine. The 
unsupported features are in how Maildir *renames* a file (often also 
with moving it via hard linking) to reflect changes in status (Read, etc.)

The Read, replied-to, etc. are stored elsewhere in Thunderbird.


> I am considering taking out a URL for my website. If I contract 
> with a service that provide email, I should be able to download that 
> through popmail, right?

Unsure what's meant by "taking out a URL" -- registering a domain?

Anyway, POP should be provided by all email services (except Google 
apparently), it's literally a single line or 3 of configuration file 
entries and is probably enabled by default. So, those that don't offer 
it have to remove the feature (as I understand it).

Also, it saves on disk space if the user immediately downloads and 
deletes the messages, and that's a significant resource - disk space.

At least, it is in my situation.