buc.ci is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Unlimited add-on domains, unlimited mailboxes, and email aliases for 19.2 EUR per year!
Also, they provide extensive tools and docs on the proper DNS configuration for your domains to make email work as expected. For the domain hosted at #Hetzner, it's just a couple of button clicks.
Also, I love their raw DNS zone file editing feature. Allows easy bulk editing with validation on save.
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Then I found mailbox.eu. It's a Latvian #email service provider. They are new and much cheaper than Infomaniak.
But turns out you can't have alias domains there. So every domain becomes a separate email service for 10 EUR annually.
Turns out the cheapest and also the most flexible solution would be a web-hosting account at #Hetzner!
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📢 New #updates · 23 Jul #10
· Wekan v10.30 — **Improved database indexing for better performance**
· solidtime v0.17.0 — Critical security fixes and email wording improvements
· lightdash 0.3465.1 — Fixed project context compatibility issue
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Jeg har selvhostet mailserver i årtier for familien, venner, forskellige foreninger.
Det har aldrig været en dans på roser. Når det virker, er det rart. Når det ikke virker, så er det meget u-rart.
Er netop faldet over mail-in-a-box som gør det muligt at hoste en mailserver nærmest uden besvær, ser det ud til. Er der nogen der har erfaringer?
I have used #Thunderbird for years. I have loved it, but in the last year they have changed a lot.
They are more concerned with money than customers. I made the huge mistake of signing up for Thundermail only to find that it is crap and overpriced.
Now, because I refuse to pay their high prices, I have had my email taken away by them. That is crazy!
As such, I am looking to move completely away from Thunderbird. I need a good, free full-featured open-source #email client that works on Mac and Linux.
Any suggestions?
I just saw the most amazing #email signature block
Sent from Proton Mail for iOS
100% human-generated content. Typographic errors do not indicate ignorance or inattention of the sender. These are natural features of the mobile messaging process and will not harm the recipient in any way.
I am sooo stealing this!
I got an email from Ana Gonzalez, of #Texas #aflcio about the ongoing #strike of 70 #skilled #workers represented by the Texas City Metal Trades Council at Ashland Specialty Chemicals in Texas City, #TX.
Workers are asking for our help to send messages to Ashland Plant Manager Darren Becker, urging him to come back to the table in good faith.
In negotiations, Ashland management sought to:
- Force employees to perform work outside their craft, creating serious #safety risks for members and the surrounding #community,
- Slash the paid sick time members earned over decades of bargaining, and
- #Outsource the storeroom to eliminate #union #jobs.
These workers only want to keep Ashland safe and are fighting to keep the #benefits they’ve earned.
She included this link, with q preformatted #email that you can customize and send.
https://act.aflcio.org/letters/take-action-support-texas-city-workers-on-strike
My ex's father worked for Ashland, and it killed him (he died of #leukemia less than a year after the wedding). Worker safety is important.
#Tuta One-Click Migration is now in closed beta!
Meine #Datenschutz Liste
vom Juli 2026 / Für euch zur #DigitaleSouveränität
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/9jt5mllJsKqNDuij36Q81PH+/
#Privatsphäre
#Fediverse
#DiDay
#PeerTube
#Mastodon
#Linux
#sicherheit
#Passwortmanager
#BigTech
#Meta
#Instagram
#WhatsApp
#Windows
#Smartphone
#2FA
#Gaming
#Messenger
#Suchmaschine
#Verschlüsselung
#Kryptographie
#EMail
#Videokonferenz
Want a #GNOME #email app "between Evolution and Geary"? Check out J-M Brummer's "Stamp" app, unveiled at #OpenSUSE conference 2026:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/jbrummer/stamp
He's been working on it for the last 2 years. It reuses the Evolution Data Server backend, combining its proven reliability with an adaptive GTK4+libAdwaita GUI.
It also handles contacts and calendaring (by embedding GNOME Calendar as a widget!). Future versions will allow using it not just as a PIM but also as a standalone mail app.
A couple of weeks ago a new small business client signed up for firewall monitoring service. After I got set up with remote access, I started poking around and discovered that they were paying for licenses for features that had never been enabled. I didn’t cost them any more money – I just had to flip the toggles on the dashboard and activate the features. Then, for a couple of those features, there were some choices to be made and settings to adjust to refine the operation.
THE LESSON
Buying hardware or software to protect your system is only the first step. That hardware appliance or app has to be configured correctly in order to do its job correctly.
#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks +1 206-465-2422
Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom – VoIP
I find it incredible that the Proton Mail android app - from @protonprivacy who want you to detach yourself from big tech - still uses Google Services.
Admittedly just for notification pushes, but still.
How difficult can it be to drop that dependency and check the server for new email at a frequency of the user's choosing?
DuckDuckGo makes more than a search engine. Email Protection strips tracking pixels from messages. App Tracking Protection blocks trackers in other Android apps. Their paid VPN routes all traffic through their servers and includes identity theft restoration. #privacy #email #trackers #duckduckgo #indigoprivacy
Hunkering down and moving everything to my own domain, even email. It’s time! What email domain hosting providers would you suggest if I wanted a .gay TLD for my email? Porkbun I can’t tell if they are just a reseller for Cloudflare and I hate CloudFlare. My current web host does not support .gay TLD. #Email
“Bob, one of my employees can send email from his iPhone, but he’s not receiving any emails.”
Well, that’s backwards – usually I see problems the other way around; they can receive, but not send.
I tried working with him on a phone call yesterday morning, but when you can’t see the screen, tech support is more difficult. The client’s main business location is in a town less than an hour from my office, so I went to their location after lunch to work on it in person.
Oh, so many details were left out! It turned out that he wasn’t receiving emails on his iPhone, his iPad, or his laptop – but he could send from the phone and the laptop.
And... the problem started in March, and was continuous from then until now!
Okay. First things first. Let’s log into Outlook on the web and see whether that works. I’m starting to have a hunch that I’ve seen this problem before, with other clients.
Outlook on the web looks the same. So I went into the Rules settings, and there was the culprit. The rule was named “....” That’s it, the only rule, and the rule name was just four dots. I clicked the drop-down arrow to expand the rule. And the rule said, on incoming mail, move it to the Deleted Items folder and mark it as read! So he was receiving email all along, he just didn’t know it.
I looked in the Deleted Items folder, and there were more than 1,300 messages, including my two test emails from earlier in the day. I moved everything back to the Inbox.
Here’s what happened. In March someone had started sending email pretending to be this employee. He changed his email password, and the outbound spam stopped. That’s all the company did. They thought the problem was solved.
Well, that locked the cybercriminal out, but it didn’t delete the rule that the cybercriminal had created to cover their activity. That rule didn’t get deleted until yesterday, June 24.
THE LESSON
If you believe your email has been compromised, after securing your account, log into each device, and especially the web instance, and look for rules you didn’t create. If a device was compromised, the malicious rule may be in Outlook’s rules on the device. This scenario can also happen in other email apps, like Thunderbird, and in other web-based email accounts, like Gmail. Whether it’s web-based or app-based, look for rules or filters that you were unaware of, and delete them.
#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks
Cybersecurity - Networks - Wireless – Telecom – VoIP
So, I'm writing a reporting system for my employer's app. It generates reports in #HTML, which the user can look at, print, and save. They look great—modern #browsers are quite good at #typesetting.
But it occurs to me that some users might want to send these reports as #email attachments to colleagues.
To the #IT people on Fedi: is that going to be a problem? Is it common for email servers to block HTML attachments? If so, what do you suggest I do to work around that?
W is to ATproto what Gmail is to email.
#WSocial #ATproto #gmail #email @IzzyOnDroid https://floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/116770552678253394
Four easy steps to elevate your privacy & security this year:
Choose a privacy-respecting browser 🌐 test: https://privacytests.org/
Use a privacy-first search engine 🔎 (Startpage, DuckDuckGo, etc.) further reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/?h=search+engine
Use privacy-respecting email 📧 (Proton, Tuta, self-hosted options) further reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email/
Use only E2EE messaging apps 🔒 (cross-platform with minimal metadata: Signal) further reading: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/
You're welcome… spread the word! Sharing is caring 🎁💬
The gift that keeps on giving: data retention, compartmentalization, FOSS, privacy & security. #FCKBigTech stick it to them… #FCKSurveillanceCapitalism 🖕Privacy security isn't a sprint; it is a marathon… Even a journey of 9k steps begins with the first one… 🙏 💚Use E2EE, full-disk encryption, back up, and update…
#Privacy #Security #E2EE #FOSS #OpenSource #DataProtection #Browser #SearchEngine #Email #Messaging
A few tips on making email fun and enjoyable again. No seriously
Never register to a newsletter. Use RSS instead. This will cut down on more emails than you think
Use email alias and disposable email addresses. If you’re going away on vacation, temporarily disable the disposable email addresses or aliases until you return.
Actually use email for lengthy non-business communication. It’s very soothing.
Instead of keeping things in your email, move those to a notes text file for easier sorting later. Schedule non important folders to automatically delete if your provider supports it.
Ban addresses instead of clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of emails.
Create a designated important/to do folder that never automatically deletes. Move important/action items into that folder.
Switch all reading views to plain text. Emails are not web pages and should never be treated as a web page. If the information can go into a text document, it does not belong in your email storage.
Proxmox Mail Gateway 9.1 erleichtert Kampf gegen Spam und verschlüsselt Backups
Das neue Proxmox Mail Gateway will mehr Komfort beim Mail-Handling bieten und die Möglichkeit, ihre Backups zu verschlüsseln.
#Datenschutz #EMail #IT #Linux #OpenSource #PostgreSQL #Spam #Verschlüsselung #news
Disclosing users' email addresses
<https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/759432> wrongly states that all email addresses used on FreeBSD Bugzilla are public. It's upvoted, without fact-checking, by nine people.
The statement in Bugzilla is closer to the truth: "your email address will never be displayed to logged out users.".
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tspfev/comment/opn06mt/> observes that Bugzilla typically makes users' email addresses public, but not in Bugzilla.
I’m not sure what to call this phenomenon, but it’s very unique to non disabled or tech people. It’s kind of like a person sees that a curb doesn’t have a curb cut for a wheelchair, so rather than fixing the problem, they order a private jet to take the wheelchair user anywhere they want to go. Tyto - a voice-first email app built for blind and VI users. Many new updates! | AppleVis https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/tyto-voice-first-email-app-built-blind-vi-users-many-new-updates https://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados/tyto-voice-first-email-app-built-blind-vi-users-many-new-updates #Email #Disability
Giving #FastMail a try and I like most of the interface. It’s not a screen reader friendly as Gmail but I haven’t come across a lot of unlabeled things yet. The calendar is the most problematic for me but I will never use their interface. I always add calendar things via third party stuff. I do love their #PlainText support though. There is no way to disable wrapping, which bugs me. I always disable line wrapping, word wrapping. It’s a shame they are union busters otherwise I would recommend FastMail. You should know that they have fucking HCaptcha and yes, it appears on every login screen you can think of without a text challenge. They do have an accessibility policy, but it’s not worth linking. Gonna try StartMail next.
Examples of their inability to cooperate with unions can be found scattered throughout https://union.place/@fastmailunited #Email
My first thought… AI wrote this right? Maybe not? While a synthetic personal voiced apology letter sounds nice as an idea; I can’t help but cringe at how the team working on the problem is probably understaffed and in the dark while you sent me emails that say. “We just now finally got everyone to answer the phone and we told them they can’t leave until the internet is restored. Also we tried a few shortcuts and even swapped out some hardware but yet we still haven’t a clue what caused the issue or how to fix it, otherwise we would have given you an ETA in the form of units of time measurement instead of treating this like a journalist in a warzone.” Still waiting on the internet, maybe leave the radio alone for a while? #tmobile #outage #T_Mobile #internet #down #email #ai
Any of my followers interested in running a mail server with #OpenBSD 🐡 and want to help testing?
Working on the setup and documenting it along the way. So curious to learn if someone wants to tag along or test it.
Bueno, ayer la migración del servidor de correo electrónico terminó exitosamente, solo resta migrar el servicio de listas Sympa y algunos cambios menores que haremos en el servicio, como por ejemplo, la implementación de cuotas de espacio. Ahora el correo corre en el servidor de servicios de texto plano y otros servicios troncales de la red. Corremos compilaciones propias de Postfix 3.11.1 y Dovecot 2.4.3, OpenDKIM 2.10.3 y Amavis 2.14.0 que gestiona ClamAV 1.5.2 de antivirus y Spamassassin 4.0.2 para el spam con un modelo bayesiano que entrené ayer. Los que tienen cuenta de correo en undernet.uy o buzon.uy, por favor prueben que todo anda bien, que pueden enviar y recibir, cualquier cosa me avisan. Las listas de momento no andan #undernet #email #correo #mejoras #textoplano
Ah, we've been Lobstered! https://lobste.rs/s/qmvgke/opensmtpd_is_mail_server_for_future #opensmtpd #openbsd #saneemail #email #freesofware #libresoftware
OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future via @ggpsv https://lobste.rs/s/qmvgke #email #openbsd
https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/05/opensmtpd-is-mail-server-for-future.html
I noticed a while back that the Google client fights back when I want to login on my email addresses which deviate from the Google domain. The client started with putting delays, before opening those accounts. It also randomly injected that those accounts were not safe while all standard Open Source safety measures are taken on both the servers and the clients.
When scaring you into using your {own hosted} email server fails, the gmail Android client degrades to the following behavior
##The Android client fakes, hallucinates, out of memory errors...
...even when all other programs on the phone have been taken out of memory. It's like someone put in LLM hallucinated slop code in that part of the gmail client
Of course I have an Open Source e-mail client running 🎽 on my Androids
I've seen this behavior coming years before. No I'm not going to recommend any open source email client to you, to use on your Android, to fetch and process your mail.
There are enough choices to make your own
Google as a company hates their consumers never forget that
jump ship.
Sent you insisted I use
sources:
moi
man elm
man pine
man thunderbird
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smtp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
#Google #email #client #elm #pine #OWM #Thor #Amiga #M68k #Android #Alphabet #programming #Enshittification #OpenSource #Thunderbird
We are very close to a new OpenBSD release. "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." https://nxdomain.no/~peter/openbsd_installed_now_for_the_daily_tasks.html can help you prepare for the upgrade.
If you are using exim as your MTA (or any other non-base system MTA), "OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html contains useful pointers for a better mail future.
#openbsd #newrelease #openbsd79 #opensmtpd #email #smtp #rspamd #antispam #spam
Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260516064650 #openbsd #opensmtpd #smtpd #exim #email #smtp #mail #spam #antispam #greylisting #greytrapping #mailmigration
Question to you.
What is a good email solution for non-profits/community groups in the United States?
Base Requirements:
- Emails that use our domain name.
- Allows individual email accounts for users (roughly 20 to 50).
- Allows email aliases / groups to where emailing one email delivers to multiple users (eg info@domain.ex goes to three specific people or foodrescue@domain.ex goes to those working on the food rescue side, etc)
Ideal requirements:
- Cheap or free
- Privacy / security oriented
- Managed (I don't like the idea of hosting our own email server for example)
Those ideal requirements have some contradiction in it, of course.
So high level, I've looked into:
- Google
- Microsoft
- Proton Mail
- Tutanota
- Mailbox org
- Startmail
Here is the quick overview for those:
Google:
- https(slash)www.google(dot)com/nonprofits/offerings/workspace/#!#workspace-pricing
- Cost: Free
- Con: They actively scan and read all emails. So we become the product.
- Pro: They are used by many non-profits and are well liked from a usability standpoint
Microsoft:
- https(slash)www.microsoft(dot)com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/nonprofit-plans-and-pricing
- Cost: $5.50 per user
- Con: They actively scan and read all emails
- Pro: They have a more robust app offering.
(I don't think we need this level of IT for our group though)
Proton Mail for Non-Profits:
- https://proton.me/business/plans#plans
- Cost: 20% off Business Costs. If we just went with email, it'd be about $5.60 per user per month
- Pro: They are private and secure and can't read emails
- Con: Much less app support but we really just need email for this
Tutanota does not offer non-profit discounts within the US - So it's a similar offering as Proton Mail for about three dollars more per month.
Startmail is also similar in price point and features as Proton and Tutanota
Mailbox(dot)org may be ideal in this space as it's only $1 per user per month. I have to check and see if we can use a custom domain, etc.
Google is free... which matters. You are the product. Also folks know it - the UI is good. Making a cost benefit analysis here, I have to bring up the "we don't have anything to hide" sort of thing. As an individual, that doesn't fly - right. But as a community group / potential non-profit, we are already transparent. None of our communications contain sensitive information. And we have a lot of folks coming in and out as it is.
So, what would the threat scenario around an org using Google for email be?
Any other ideas?
OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html Migrating to OpenSMTPD from exim on OpenBSD was joyfully painless and smooth. #openbsd #opensmtpd #email #smtpd #rspamd #spam #antispam #greylisting #greytrapping #mailserver
Anywho this is your free tip to pitch me your favourite #email providers that aren't Google.
If I wanted google I'd have gone with a google workspace several years ago and solved this whole problem before it became one.
Gosh I find I don't hate #claws as an #email client.
Set up in 5 minutes with my IMAP account unlike setting up a new account in the #thunderbird wizard which is painful and gets in my way.
Because the developers at thunderbird don't realise that some of us don't use email addresses as a username.
So I think when I get my machine setup I'm going to try claws properly out. It's got a lot of options.
https://www.europesays.com/people/66622/ Vice President JD Vance set to speak in Maine on Thursday #2026 #AM #bangor #BangorInternationalAirport #BangorMaine #country #Democrat #election #Email #event #fraud #JamesDavidVance #jd #JDVance #maine #midterms #PresidentDonaldTrump #Republican #state #thursday #UnionAddress #Vance #VicePresident #VicePresidentVance #visit #way #WhiteHouse
Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
https://twitter.com/weezerOSINT/status/2045849358462222720
#HackerNews #Notion #Data #Leak #Email #Security #Privacy #OSINT
Oh Ugh! #Fastmail has HCaptcha. Bletch! Tried to do their 30 day free trial and, not only did they seem to block Google Voice numbers, but they have HCaptcha on almost every login/recovery page, and, no thank you. Gonna look at other email providers, but Fastmail is out for me, which is a shame because I love all the things they provide.
HCaptcha is everywhere on almost all account activity things I tried. Creation, login, recovery, and other places. I had to do their accessibility cookie. I don’t know why I did not get there text challenge. When HCaptcha detected I had a Gmail address, they forced me to make an account. I made an account, applied the accessibility cookie, then immediately requested my account be deleted. HCaptcha said my account will be deleted within 20 hours. I can’t express how much I hate HCaptcha. #Email
I recently have friends that would not leave Meta suddenly emailing me and or texting me because they were/are banned or suspended and are amazed they can get ahold of me very easily even though I am not on a walled garden. Reminds me of Maybe we should SMS again., Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/6552/ #Email #SMS
What's a good cheap/free email service that works, has a phone app, is easy to set up, and I could have to slowly replace gmail?
📬 Neuer Beitrag im Kuketz-Blog:
Dein E-Mail-Postfach weiß mehr über dich als du denkst: Logins, Bestellungen, Arzttermine, Verträge – alles läuft dort zusammen. Gmail, Outlook und GMX nutzen genau das, um dich besser zu durchleuchten.
Teil 4 der Serie #UnplugBigTech zeigt, wie der Umstieg auf einen seriösen Anbieter gelingt – Schritt für Schritt, ohne Chaos.
👉 https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugbigtech-e-mail-ohne-werbe-oekosystem-teil-4/
#UnplugBigTech #EMail #Datenschutz #Mailbox #Posteo #Thunderbird #Privatsphaere #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung
📬 Neuer Beitrag im Kuketz-Blog:
Dein E-Mail-Postfach weiß mehr über dich als du denkst: Logins, Bestellungen, Arzttermine, Verträge – alles läuft dort zusammen. Gmail, Outlook und GMX nutzen genau das, um dich besser zu durchleuchten.
Teil 4 der Serie #UnplugBigTech zeigt, wie der Umstieg auf einen seriösen Anbieter gelingt – Schritt für Schritt, ohne Chaos.
👉 https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugbigtech-e-mail-ohne-werbe-oekosystem-teil-4/
#UnplugBigTech #EMail #Datenschutz #Mailbox #Posteo #Thunderbird #Privatsphaere #DigitaleSelbstbestimmung
Maybe just a case of: This thing is bad, but all the alternatives are not any better
I've been using Thunderbird almost as long as it has been available. Still using it. Every once in a while I attempt to look at alternatives. For the most part, Thunderbird works for me and I have strongly recommended it in the past.
RT: https://mastodon.social/users/andrewrk/statuses/116375323299402093
hm. this thing seems to be popping up again and again https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47636937 #greytrapping #email #runyourownmailserver #spam #spamd #greylisting #antispam
Interesting read. I have been decoupling from Google, and Proton has the throwaway email addresses I haven't tried. Yet.
So do other email providers.
Worth looking into.
Did a quick video on the #cybersecurity breach of FBI Director, Kash Patel's e-mail and why you could be next.
#cybersecurity #infosec #servers #vps #servers #email #hackers #vulnerabilities #opensource #cloud #microsoft #google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6TK-QjTPw&feature=youtu.be
I'm not sure how Layla and May001 snuck past SpamAssassin but the assassin is being re-trained.
(I'm not asking for advice about dealing with spam. SpamAssassin has this one well in hand. I'm just curious if anyone else has been seeing spam like this).