I prefer to use Gmail as my primary email account for a variety of reasons. I have other email accounts, including one on a virtual machine run by a close family member.
Until a few years ago, I imported all mail via POP3. This stopped when Google decided that self-signed certificates were less secure than no encryption at all (how does this make sense?). At that time, Google employees advised users either to get an SSL certificate signed by a trusted CA, or have email forwarded from the external server. So for the last few years, I've had my email forwarded from there with no problem. Then tonight I am told by my close family member that my emails will no longer be forwarded, because Gmail is rate-limiting *all* mail sent by that server, because some of the emails I get forwarded are spam. To make matters worse, Gmail is apparently doing this in at least one instance by *silently dropping messages while still indicating that the mail has been accepted*. So as far as I can tell, Google's official policy is: 1. Sending passwords in cleartext is better than trusting a certificate signed by your close family member, because at least you *know* that cleartext is insecure. 2. If you want to not do that, then you must either convince the server admin to buy an SSL certificate so that you can read your email more conveniently, or 3. Convince the server admin to forward all your email along, risking their server's reputation and potentially interrupting normal use of their service by other users The obvious solution would just be to let me approve a particular self-signed certificate. I am not the first person to ask for this option. But in any case, following Google's advice to have email forwarded along should certainly not result in mail being silently dropped, let alone other people's mail... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
