Paul M. Foster (HE12026-01-07): > > You can also set up an account at unfriendly_provider.com and have it > > forward messages to somewhere else that lets you use Tbird. That's what > > I do with gmail.
> Your unfriendly_provider.com suggestion fails. I can't ping the URL or whois > it. It's either a misspell or they've gone away. Do not bother: mail redirection addresses no longer work, unless you have the full cooperation of the system to where you want to forward. And if you have that, you do not need a redirection in the first place. We have Google and the other monopolistic mail operators to thank for that, they have designed their anti-spam practices to prevent redirection addresses, because redirection addresses let people use their services with the option of leaving easily. The standards have provisions for redirections, and it work, with a lot of effort, with targeted redirections, but as soon as some spam transits on the redirection, as happens if it is an actual address used by an actual person, it will soon be blacklisted as a whole. Regards, -- Nicolas George
