Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:50:59, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:51:21 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > ... > > > Well, apparently lots of people[1] seem very upset about and hell bent > > to change Signal's (the service) policies on federation, third-party > > clients, etc. > > > > Why?

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 27 iun 21, 11:27:39, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:31:33 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on why in your opinion an entity providing a service > > should automatically accept connections from third-party clients and/or > > federate with other service

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:51:21 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > Well, apparently lots of people[1] seem very upset about and hell bent > to change Signal's (the service) policies on federation, third-party > clients, etc. > > Why? There's Matrix, that already has all that. Why insist that >

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 07:41:51 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: ... > Not enough for what? The primary issue I have with Matrix is that > there's too much concentration of servers under the control of > matrix.org - but I think that they believe that too, and that > this will be rectified over the next

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 17:02:10 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 iun 21, 14:05:04, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > An interesting read. Countered at > > > > https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom > > Looking

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:31:33 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-27 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:14:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:04:13, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 14:05:04, Brian wrote: > On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > An interesting read. Countered at > > https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom Looking forward for them to prove Moxie wrong, really! Kind regards, Andrei

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 07:41:51, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Sure. In my opinion, a communication service that does not > federate with open-source clients and servers is a proprietary > service, even if it is free-gratis to use. The owner of that > service can do whatever they

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > I've found that switching fetchmail from pop3 access to imap access, > restores that delete function. However that may be server dependent, > my server at shentel.net is dovecot. Very few problems. Google uses gsmtp, their own implementation. It's likely that they are selective in

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Sat 26 Jun 2021 at 14:14:13 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 iun 21, 13:31:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Jun 2021 at 19:29:31 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you can't > > write your own

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 26 iun 21, 13:31:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:13:42, Dan Ritter wrote: > > At the other end is anything where you can't use a client or a > server that isn't produced/managed by the central authority. > Despite Signal making some of their source available, you can't > write your own Signal client and have it talk to

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 24 iun 21, 14:04:13, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why? Not blurry at

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 25 iun 21, 19:29:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the "delete"

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-26 03:31, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 25 June 2021 14:29:31 mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > other ISP. It seems to me

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 25 June 2021 14:29:31 mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: > > > > It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without > > ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any > > other ISP. > > It seems to me they do not honour the

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:04:57 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 18:41:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:03:28 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > > > Andrei

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-25 19:04, Brian wrote: It is perfectly possible to send and receive mail via gmail without ever encountering its web interface. That's no different from any other ISP. It seems to me they do not honour the "delete" request when collecting from IMAP because in my case they

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-25 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 18:41:56 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:03:28 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:03:28 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why?

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > > > list. > > > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as > > WhatsApp. Maybe

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > > list. > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as > WhatsApp. Maybe more private, but unless you know something I don't, > Signal doesn't talk

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Michael Grant
> Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > list. Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as WhatsApp. Maybe more private, but unless you know something I don't, Signal doesn't talk to anything other than other Signal. Puppeted bridges are

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Brian Thompson
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:22:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > gmail is a mail reader (like as Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or Outlook (the > > program) + a mail server + domain

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 07:52:02, Michael Grant wrote: > > It's quite shocking to me to have conversations with young people, > even into their early 20s who do not understand this distinction. And > there are many people who do not understand the distinction between a > standards based system such as

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 07:52:02 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > > > absolutely clear; > > > > > >

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Michael Grant
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:36:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > > absolutely clear; > > > > gmail != email > > Nonsense. > > > or, in words; > > > > gmail IS NOT

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2021 23:46:24 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Tue Jun 22 11:11:38 2021 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>> In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to > >>> make

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Tue Jun 22 11:11:38 2021 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >>> In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make >>> it absolutely clear; >>> >>> gmail != email >>> >>> or, in

Re: Gmail's special approach to Email [was: Re: Messed up Email] (SOLVED)

2021-06-22 Thread Gary L. Roach
Thank all of you for your replies, Andrei's missive below was the fix I needed. After unsubscribing "All-Mail" and one other folder, I restarted Thunderbird and my problem disappeared. All my mail now passes through my InBox and is processed by my local filters. Just what I wanted. Gary R.

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 20:03:29 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:36:33 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > >It cannot handle email in a way *you* approve of? > > The way google handle electronic communication differs from the way the > everyone else does it. Like I

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 19:36:33 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >It cannot handle email in a way *you* approve of? The way google handle electronic communication differs from the way the everyone else does it. Like I said, there's huge overlap, but that means there are differences. Whether I

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 19:44:30 +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 19:36 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > [...] > > All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours. > > > > Continuing nonsense. > > > > No it's not. A commercial

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 19:36 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: [...] > All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours. > > Continuing nonsense. > No it's not. A commercial company isn't going to do anything altruistic for our benefit, they do

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 10:44:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it > absolutely clear; > > gmail != email Nonsense. > or, in words; > > gmail IS NOT email More nonsense. > There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 15:42, Joe wrote: On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:17:56 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: Doesn't your ISP provide an email server? In my neck of the woods, its part of the services an ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud connection. It's getting less common in the UK, mostly it comes only

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Joe
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:17:56 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Doesn't your ISP provide an email server? In my neck of the woods, > its part of the services an ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud > connection. > It's getting less common in the UK, mostly it comes only with web hosting. Where it is

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 06:32 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-06-22 at 07:17, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it absolutely clear; gmail != email

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-22 at 07:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: >> >>> In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to >>> make it absolutely clear; >>> >>> gmail != email >>> >>> or, in words;

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 June 2021 07:02:25 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make > > it absolutely clear; > > > > gmail != email > > > > or, in words; > > > > gmail IS NOT email > > > > > > There may be

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 04:44 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it absolutely clear; gmail != email or, in words; gmail IS NOT email There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect google to do anything right. All that google offer is

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-22 Thread Brad Rogers
In addition to everything everybody else has said, and just to make it absolutely clear; gmail != email or, in words; gmail IS NOT email There may be vast swathes of overlap, but don't expect google to do anything right. All that google offer is for THEIR benefit, not yours. -- Regards _

Gmail's special approach to Email [was: Re: Messed up Email]

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 21 iun 21, 16:22:42, Gary L. Roach wrote: > > For some years, I have been using Thunderbird on Debian with no problems. > Over a year ago I switched to gmail.com (Imap server) for my mail server. > Everything went fine until about 6 months ago . All of a sudden I had an > All-Mail folder

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 05:47, mick crane wrote: On 2021-06-22 00:22, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-22 00:22, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/21/2021 6:22 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM

Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Thunderbird 78.10.0(64bit) For some years, I