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Tag: email
US Approves Google Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Gmail Spam Filter
"The US Federal Election Commission approved a Google plan on Thursday to let campaign emails bypass Gmail spam filters. The FEC's advisory opinion adopted in a 4-1 vote said Gmail's pilot program is permissible under the Federal Election Campaign Act and FEC regulations "and would not result in the making of a prohibited in-kind contribution." The FEC said Google's … Continue reading US Approves Google Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Gmail Spam Filter
Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
"These days, all Google and Apple and Big Tech talk about is privacy, so the best way to give our definition is to give the contrast. The way Google defines privacy is, “Nobody can exploit your data, except for us.” Our definition is cleaner, more simple, and more authentic: Nobody can exploit your data—period. We … Continue reading Proton Is Trying to Become Google—Without Your Data
Why is Plaintext Better than HTML for Email?
"In short, HTML emails are a security nightmare, are mostly used for advertising to you and tracking you, are less accessible for many users, and don't offer anything especially great for it."https://useplaintext.email/ He buried the lede. I went ahead and put it at the top. For more detail, read the below. Another in my ongoing … Continue reading Why is Plaintext Better than HTML for Email?
Email & Tool Choice
Like everyone, I get more email than I really want. Most of it is newsletters. I usually use Thunderbird for email. It incorporates most of my email into one interface. It uses IMAP to pull the information from the email providers' servers, so I don't have to use some janky, javascript laden website for email. … Continue reading Email & Tool Choice
Explained From First Principles
"The goal of this website is to provide the best introduction available to the covered subjects. After doing a lot of research about a particular topic, I write the articles for my past self in the hope they are useful to the present you. Each article is intended to be the first one that you … Continue reading Explained From First Principles
Canned Emails
"a minimal site with prewritten emails"-Canned Emails Nice way to ease yourself into the philosophy of five.sentenc.es. Still, you have to use your judgment. Email isn't always the best medium, e.g., don't break up with someone over email or text.
The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives
"To examine our inboxes is to examine our lives: our desires and dreams, our families and careers, our status, our networks and our social groupings, our projects, our commerce, our politics, our secrets/lies/fetishes. Inboxes are anthropological goldmines, textual archives, psychological case studies, waiting to be plumbed and probed for the expansive cultural, ethical, epistemological, and … Continue reading The Inbox: A Scattered, Ad-Ridden Archive of Our Lives
OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
The OpenBSD's mailing list page netiquette section is excellent. It is a distillation of how to communicate online, i.e.: Plain text, 72 characters per line [or simplest formatting available]Do your homework before writingInclude a useful subject line [or headline]Trim your signatureStay on topicInclude important informationRespect differences in opinion and philosophy Using only plain text is … Continue reading OpenBSD’s Guide to Netiquette
Inbox Zero and the Search for the Perfect Email Client | Ars Technica
"Are you the sort of person who needs to read and file every email they get? Or do you delight in seeing an email client icon proudly warning of hundreds or even thousands of unread items? For some, keeping one's email inbox with no unread items is more than just a good idea: it's a … Continue reading Inbox Zero and the Search for the Perfect Email Client | Ars Technica
You Give Up a Lot of Privacy Just Opening Emails. Here’s How to Stop It | WIRED
"[Email tracking] tech is pretty simple. Tracking clients embed a line of code in the body of an email—usually in a 1x1 pixel image, so tiny it's invisible, but also in elements like hyperlinks and custom fonts. When a recipient opens the email, the tracking client recognizes that pixel has been downloaded, as well as … Continue reading You Give Up a Lot of Privacy Just Opening Emails. Here’s How to Stop It | WIRED
A Text-Only World
"Security-conscious users must demand that their email providers offer a plain-text option. Unfortunately, such options are few and far between, but they are a key to stemming the webmail insecurity epidemic. Mail providers that refuse to do so should be avoided, just like back alleys that are bad places to conduct business. Those online back … Continue reading A Text-Only World
Mutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrc
Update: August 2019. In August 2017, I wrote this post to document my process for getting gpg2 working on OpenBSD 6.1 after not finding a straight-forward explanation online. In the two years since, I have used these notes to set up mutt on both OpenBSD and several varieties of Linux, such as Debian derivatives, Arch … Continue reading Mutt on OpenBSD & Linux: configuring gpg/gpg2 & ~/.muttrc
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