On 8/20/20 8:19 PM, Jack wrote:
On 2020.08.20 18:42, james wrote:
On 8/20/20 1:20 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:06:39 -0400, james wrote:
Look at what I just received:
From <[email protected]>
"Dear User
Your Verizon✔ Version is outdated and has expired in the database as
you know we are moving our Email Platform to AOl Mail.
Failure to Upgrade to the newest Verizon✔ AOL Version 12.9 will result
in inefficient usage of mailbox and might result to shutdown
UPDATE HERE to Visit your login page Log-in to restore.
Thanks
Verizon✔ My Account
Verizon✔ © 2020 All Right reserved "
That looks like a phishing mail to me.
OK. How do I verify or ferret out this to know.
Ferret out what?
Thunderbird on gentoo is vulnerable?
Vulnerable to what? Any email client is subject to receiving SPAM and
phishing attempts. Some email clients do have some amount of filtering
included, and there are plenty of addons available. I used one of the
Bayesian based ones for a while (can't remember the name) and finally
gave up due to the difficulty of integrating with Balsa's pop3
fetching. As I remember, it would have been easier to integrate with a
mail server than with the client.
I've charted my own pathway, via R.P.4 boards and static IP addresses.
That way, I can add whatever I want, test, and just run very few codes
on those arm8 boards.... Sure, this has been on my todo list, as I
prepare to live/work out of a RV. Eventually, I'll add a satellite
link, when all else fails, without large attached files. I'm keeping
the home, where the hub/static-IPs will connect, but I can be home or
mobile, controlling my own email servers. I've just groan very tired
of someone else managing and making decisions on MY email. I've
received too many private emails from folks, with the same sentiment.
If what I do is well documented, then a plethora of folks can have
custom setups, in a well documented fashion. Mine is the hard case
with the eventual address of daily mobility, cellular and satellite
comms.
Migration to R.P.4 has been on my goals list too, for a while.
MY goal, via gentoo, is to fix and document this once and for ALL.
Your expertise and the rest of the band of Gentoo folks are deeply
appreciated in this effort. This action has been brewing for a few
years. Email is critical for me, and I do not want vendors dictating
its future for me. Enough is Enough.
As you do document all you are doing, and the information you gather, I
see several interrelated but distinct areas. hardware, software
(several possibilities for each of several tasks,) network provisioning,
and network configuration. I'd prefer a better term for that last one -
but I mean things like assuring your IP address doesn't end up (or start
out) in a blacklisted block for any smtp attempts. In my case, it's
mostly that one (plus spam filtering) which gives me hesitation to
attempt rolling my own.
So can/how to I research if the IPv6 addresses offered have been
blacklisted ?
Same question, should I be able to get (2) IPv4 address.
So if I request they are out of different blocks of IPv4, is that
better? Just (2) single IP addresses from different blocks?
Nest week I start that conversation with carriers. With what I have seen
and heard, you'd think carriers, the folks with fiber in the ground,
would be happy for a guy like me build a robust and secure email server
services system. After all, it is their "ineptness" of employee
selection that causes them such pains to run an email system.
Surely punting to AOL and such, brings them little or no revenue....
(speculation on my part). Any insight to these venues, would help me
negotiate the resources I need. Surely, this is just for me and a few
friends. But, what I read and what other technical friends tell me, is
this is an eruption waiting to happen. For many long time unix/bsd/linux
folks email is a most critical tool for daily endeavors. The amount of
code-snippets alone, in mine, is a treasure trove.
James
James
Jack
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