Notices tagged with email, page 7

Here are some pointers on how to find an email sender's IP address and then trace it back to its source.

How to trace an email to its source IP address
🔗 https://tchlp.com/3Q9w05e
#trace #email #source #ipaddress

hard-right #conservatives will be like "question #everything" and then accept everything they were ever #taught to #believe about #society plus whatever insane thing they happen to see in an #email

Derzeit wird hier viel über #Bluesky vs. #Fediverse diskutiert. Meine Beobachtung: Das Fediverse wird vor allem von früheren Plattform-Profiteuren letztlich als langweilig und so spannend wie #EMail empfunden. Also als Rückschritt. Ich nenne es #Degrowth. Und möchte dazu ermuntern, mal in einer Quelle der eigenen Wahl nachzuforschen, was durch E-Mail schon alles möglich wurde. Vor allem aber ist das Fediverse genauso unkaputtbar. Wenn all die coolen Services längst wieder Geschichte sind, wird das Fediverse einfach da sein. Kann man, je nachdem, wie man gerade drauf ist, für ödes Default-Networking halten, von und für uncoole, nicht-jagende, eher pflanzenartige Wesen. Oder man findet darin den entscheidenden Rettungsanker nach einem Schiffbruch.

Ich glaube jedenfalls mittlerweile, dass es durchaus sinnvoll ist, wenn sich das Fediverse bewusst als dieser soziale #ImmerDaService definiert. Denn es wird niemals die Chance haben, ernsthaft mit der irrationalen Logik der Hypes und ihrer kapitalstarken Investoren konkurrieren zu können. Da helfen auch keine coolen User Interfaces. Die nehmen wir innerhalb des Fediverse zwar gerne an und freuen uns an ihnen. Aber wir müssen akzeptieren, dass wir damit allein keine User überzeugen können, die einfach nur auf der Überholspur leben wollen.

Möglicherweise werden mir diese Gedanken als Spaltungsversuch ausgelegt. Dazu kann ich nur sagen: Ich möchte nicht spalten. Ich freue mich über alle Ex-Plattform-InfluencerInnen, die hier herkommen. Egal, ob sie nur kurz bleiben, oder länger, oder nur teilweise, oder dauerhaft, das alles sollte im besten Fall keine Diskussionen mehr auslösen. Wenn das Fediverse der Einfach-nur-da-Service ist, braucht es so was jedenfalls nicht mehr.

Ich weiß auch, dass diese Gedanken einigen meiner eigenen bisherigen widersprechen. Ich hatte im Verlauf des letzten Jahres immer die Hoffnung, dass das Fediverse doch mal selber so ein Hype werden könnte. Das sehe ich mittlerweile anders. Und diese Richtungsänderung im Denken tut mir durchaus gut. :-)

The "New Outlook" demands that when adding your Gmail account, you also give Microsoft a copy of all your email, contacts, and calendar data.

The "Learn More" link confirms:

"Syncing your account to the Microsoft Cloud means that a copy of your email, calendar, and contacts will be synchronized between your email provider and Microsoft data centers."

WOW.

Good time to switch to @thunderbird, folks!

#Privacy #Outlook #Email

Attention: Your Email Has Been Hacked. 😈

It is a spooky month, and we feel like these days privacy violations sound scarier than ghosts.

Do you want to protect yourself from the evil? No magic circle or rituals, just a good old self-defence guide by @fsf to ensure your safety.

#DigitalSecurity #Privacy #Email #OpenSource

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

We never did a proper #introduction, did we? 😲

Hi Fediverse, we're Thunderbird, an #opensource #email client available for free on Linux, macOS and Windows. (And coming next year to Android. FINALLY, right?)

You can use Thunderbird for managing an unlimited number of mail accounts, calendars, newsgroup accounts, and RSS feeds. You can also chat using your @matrix account.

💙 LIKES: Open standards, privacy, freedom, customization.

🚫 DISLIKES: Proprietary code.

Nice to meet you 📩

Are today's next to useless spam filters a result of #enshittification ? Outlook's spam filters are especially bad, despite Microsofts market dominance. False positives are the norm, while obvious spam gets through. It didn't use to be so bad. I get that spammers probably target Outlook more and are getting better at fooling the filters, but that shouldn't lead to more false positives. #email

If you're a Thunderbird and Google Calendar user, you'll be happy to know the process of adding those cloud-based calendars has been greatly simplified in Mozilla's email client. #mozilla #thunderbird #email #google #calendar

https://tchlp.com/3LFrPv5

🔒 macOS Sonoma + GPG Mail

Apple has dropped support for macOS Mail plugins, such as GPG Mail, in macOS Sonoma. If you rely on our OpenPGP integration for your daily work, please refrain from upgrading to macOS Sonoma at this time. As a replacement Apple introduced "Mail Extensions". For GPG Mail however, some very important functionality is still missing from the Mail Extensions API which will not be available before the first update of #macOS #Sonoma.

Learn more: https://gpgtools.com/sonoma

#OpenPGP #Email #Encryption

#India Proposes #Bill to #Require Govt ID for Social Media #Accounts and #Email

https://twitter.com/Mallufideintent/status/1572976339862581248

RT @Mallufideintent@twitter.com

It looks like Gmail, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram,etc, and their respective users are going to have to do quite a bit of paperwork if the Draft Telecom Bill is passed in its present form.

They'll all need licences and will have to identify their users thru verifiable ID.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Mallufideintent/status/1572976339862581248

About half of the Fediverse addresses typed by FediForum attendees into the session notes are missing the leading "@".

People typed in their very own Fediverse handles. And because they came to FediForum, it's very likely they are very well acquainted with the right syntax.

Pretty strong circumstantial evidence that most people won't be able to distinguish Fediverse handles from e-mail addresses.

I have long believed that they should be the same.

#fediverse #email #address #fediforum

We're not done with Thunderbird Supernova!

As promised, we will continue to improve the UI and functionality of message threads and Cards view.

We outline the upcoming changes in our Thunderbird UX mailing list here: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/ux/Tdb49a4666565e68e-M4aba7d876e0ced9c8d66ca58

A mockup with developer comments is also available from the link.

💡 If you have valuable feedback to offer about this, please reply to the mailing list so our developers & community see it!

#Thunderbird #Email #OpenSource

Itinerary 🚅 imports more ticket formats, Merkuro (ex-Kalendar) 🗓️ gets a new look and adds "availability", and KMail 📩 makes encrypting and signing messages really, really easy.

Find out what else is new for KDE's Personal Information Management apps at:

https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023-09-01-kde-pim-july-august-2023/

#groupware #email #calendar #travel

:alert: Software startup Skiff.com falsely advertises it's email client as #OpenSource

I currently recommend avoiding using, and/or contributing to their products, until they fix their false advertising.

They are actually licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA (Non commercial, share-a-like), which is not an open source license (as commercial use allowed is a requirement for open source).

When confronted on Github, the issue was shortly closed, saying that the libraries used for the apps are open source, and that they have no plan for allowing commercial use for their apps.

I pointed out that open source requires commercial use, and I got this reply from their CEO:

"Commercial use is not a requirement for open source software. Study the MongoDB case."

Didn't know that MongoDB is open source. Because it's not. It's source-available, not open source.

Well, can't blame for users not checking this. Even It's FOSS News publication (https://news.itsfoss.com/skiff-mail-review/) got baited. Startups are using open source software's reputation, without contributing to the community (by using an proper license).

Issue: https://github.com/skiff-org/skiff-apps/issues/93
#FOSS #FalseAdvertising #Skiff #Email #OpenWashing

Okay this is getting ridiculous now. My own innocuous little domain email (which ironically years ago integrated with Gmail) is still wholesale blocked by every single #Gmail account I email, so within #ProtonMail I have to switch to an alias with a standard ProtonMail email address to get it through. Apart from constantly screaming into the void that people don't use #Google, does anyone have any ideas on sorting this so I can get my emails to go through? #email #emails #Proton #domain

At Thunderbird, we share values that guide our development and roadmap. Things like openness, customization, freedom, and privacy.

But it might be time to add another value to the list: the well-being of our users.

Read more about it here, and don't hesitate to add your voice to the conversation:

https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/planning/T1811fa406e939644

#MentalHealth #Productivity #Email #Thunderbird

🎉 Happy 20th birthday, Thunderbird! 🎂

Time flies, doesn't it?
20 years ago today, a new cross-platform, open-source application called Thunderbird debuted from the foundations of Mozilla Mail.

Some of you have been with us this entire time, and we are so honored to have you on this journey with us.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/07/thunderbird-time-machine-2003-a-look-back-at-thunderbird-0-1/

#Mozilla #Email #FOSS #OpenSource #History

Installing new brand new Thunderbird 115 SUPERNOVA! 🎉🍾

Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.

Get the details here:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

Kudos to @thunderbird for keeping this bird flying!!! 🙇

#thunderbird #email #emailclient

The #Mozilla #Thunderbird team announced today the general availability of the long-anticipated Thunderbird 115 #Supernova release for this very popular #opensource, cross-platform, and free #email, calendar, and chat client. https://tchlp.com/46JCca6

THUNDERBIRD 115 SUPERNOVA IS HERE! 🎉🍾

With this year’s version, we’re delivering much more than just another yearly release. Supernova represents a modernized overhaul of the software – both visually and technically – while retaining the familiarity and flexibility you expect.

It's your first step into the future of Thunderbird.

Get the details here:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/07/our-fastest-most-beautiful-release-ever-thunderbird-115-supernova-is-here/

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email #Supernova