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   Woozle Hypertwin (woozle@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 03:20:35 JST Woozle Hypertwin

   So, am I reading this right?

   It seems to be claiming:

   1. Unless my ISP somehow authorizes email to be sent from my IP, Gmail will now bounce it.
   2. 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.

   Is it time to formally #boycottGmail?

   #boycott #Gmail #Google

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     Woozle Hypertwin (woozle@toot.cat)'s status on Monday, 08-May-2023 06:50:40 JST Woozle Hypertwin

     • goatsarah

     @goatsarah The way I look at it, it has made Gmail useless since they can't communicate with anyone except other tech giants.

     (That's my hill-of-dying, and I'm sticking to it. >.>)

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