I want to use #GoogleChat in an organization, but users don't use gMail for email (the organization has Microsoft Exchange), and there are no email notifications from Google Chat - is it even worth trying?
Those of you who use PGP for email, do you typically generate a sign and an encrypt RSA subkey - and use those? Or what's the best practice?
Wanting to publish my PGP public key on my profile and website and start rocking that far more aggressively, but don't want to do stuff less-than-ideal and then have to change and re-publish keys again later and etc.
I like to keep only my most current emails in my actual email account, everything else goes into the archives. It presents a neater division of materials for my messy mind.
I export all the emails as .eml files occasionally - in case something goes bad with MailStore's db (it's Firebird and maybe I just don't know enough about it, but I don't quite trust it).
This #Mastodon / #email bridge <https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/110340426573847934> by @nkizz is just brilliant, but you know what would absolutely ROCK? A #Fediverse server that had native support for #IMAP.
While we're on the topic, I wonder if anybody has thought about building a client with an UX inspired by Usenet newsreaders (personally, MicroPlanet Gravity was one of the few things I missed from Windows when I switched to Linux, would love to see something like that for Mastodon.)
I was reading my Gmail and clicked on what I thought was an email from American Home Shield. It turns out it was an ad (Gmail has started embedding them in one's message list, I guess(?))
Within 5-10 minutes, I get a call from American Home Shield saying: We've noticed you're interested in our service. I hadn't even filled out a form or anything.
I just clicked on an email and got a sales call. This is peak Google, and a darn good reason to use Protonmail.
Welcome back to the ThunderCast: Episode 2 is READY!
We welcome special #Mozilla guest @mconley, a software mechanic, musician, livestreamer, and self-described “pre-internet phenomenon” among many other awesome things.
Join us for a great conversation full of nostalgia, a behind-the-scenes look at some great Firefox features, and much more!
Graphs of the sizes of fediverse instances, how common they are, and where the most people are! 🧵
Data pulled from https://instances.social/ (by @TheKinrar) and excludes pawoo and baraag as they're heavily blocked for good reasons (it seems)
Breaking down instances by the number of users into bins (that are quasi human friendly logarithmic), we see that the majority (55%) have 2-50 users, ~33% have 1 user, and almost all instances have less than 5,000 users.
Unless my ISP somehow authorizes email to be sent from my IP, Gmail will now bounce it.
Unless I am hooked up with an email service that somehow has clout with Google, Gmail will bounce it.
Since the "ISP" through whom I am attempting to send mail is #DigitalOcean, I find item #1 to be dubious. They are not blocking my outgoing mail port, and I have no problems sending to most recipients (Google and Microsoft being the only exceptions I'm aware of).
DigitalOcean seems to encouraging its users to use a 3rd-party service -- but I'm already paying them for hosting, and managing my own email service; I don't want to pay yet another service just for the privilege of being allowed to send messages to Gmail's increasingly walled garden.
@woozle@andrewt I agree w/putting MS & Google on the dark side of that line despite the fact that you lose reach to probably 90% of the population. But consider a simpler rationale: instead of digging into whether their config is malicious or yours is lacking, simply knowing that Google & MS harvest all #email they can & exploit it for #adSurveillance profits, that’s reason enough to boycott them
@andrewt@woozle Suppose you send a msg to bob@gmail·com. Bob gets gratis #email from Google b/c Google snoops on the msgs. Google doesn’t just snoop on Bob. Google snoops on everyone Bob talks to. That means you. So by emailing Bob, you help pay Bob’s email bill by pawning yourself to #Google. Regardless of MX configurations, do you really want to support that model? Simple decision for me.
Yesterday I moved my personal #email to #tutanota (after #selfhosting it for a few months). Such a smooth experience. Everything just works ™️. Not that I had any problems with my VPS and #mailinabox. Just decided I want more peace of mind. Plus it's way cheaper. 12 EUR per year? C'mon, I couldn't ask for a better offer 🤩
@m2m now allows you to share a post by #email directly from #Mastodon. You just have to mention the #bot with an email address under a post (do it privately) and it will email the indicated address with a link to the post.
Benefits ? No need to leave the app, some apps don't have sharing options, the email includes a link to invite the person to join Mastodon, not everyone has their email configured in an app that allows sharing on the device they use.
iPhone Tip, Do you have multiple email accounts, and when you get that sound that you received a new email, you do not know from what account? You can set up a different sound for each email account, and here's how.
1, Go to settings / Mail.
2, Choose the notifications button.
3, Choose last button on the screen, customize notifications.
4, On this screen, you will find a list of the email accounts you have on your phone.
5, Double Tap on the first account name.
6, Swipe until you hear sound and the sound name. Just double tap that to bring up the list of available sounds to choose from.
7, Note. By double tapping a sound, it will play and select it as your choice. So after double tapping your choice, just hit the back button to take you back to the previous screen, and that sound will then be listed as the sound for that particular email account.
8, Just follow the same process to pick a sound for each of your email accounts. #iPhone#Tip#Email#Account#Sound
You know, when I was thinking about posting something about my wish for an #email -like client to #Mastodon, it was initially intended as a reference to me being a completionist, not about #spam. Now, not so sure anymore.
News for KDE's personal information management software 📧 🗓️ 🛫 : Kalendar's contact editor gets overhauled and shares more with KOrganizer, Itinerary supports more travel documents, Akonadi improves database handling, and more.