[Ffmpeg-devel] gmx unconditionally rejects valid mails due to SORBS (=i need new mail provider!)

Mean fixounet
Thu May 25 12:11:45 CEST 2006


Michael Niedermayer wrote:

>Hi
>
>as you probably noticed from the recent disscussion, mails from many
>developers dont reach me anymore thanks to gmx & sorbs, sorbs only removes
>people from their list if they pay, i have great doubt about the legality
>of this system, it somehow reminds me of mafia methods, but then IMO
>listing people (or IPs which are practically equivalent) probably is
>already breaking european privacy laws, then again iam not a lawyer and
>iam just guessing, i mean if i made a list of addresses of young good
>looking girls id be in serious troubble in no time so why should
>doing this with spammers and people who never send a spam but somehow
>still end up on the list and people with dynamic ips be legal?
>
>the second part of the problem of course is that gmx has no option
>to turn this insanity off (ive already disabled all their antispam stuff)
>
>so iam asking if someone could provide me a working pop3/smtp email or
>for suggestions of a useable mail provider ...
>
>my requirements are simple, nothing special
>* working POP3 & SMTP (IMAP might be nice too but ive survived without it
>  so this isnt really a factor ATM)
>* secure (POP3 & SMTP over SSL)
>* free (i wont pay for it and i wont accept advertisements appended to mails)
>* not in SORBS list of coarse :)
>* not doing any unconditional mail rejection based on random lists
>* logging of connection IPs&time (i once asked gmx if anyone tried to 
>  access/hack my account and they told me they dont log anything but the
>  single last IP)
>* traffic will be mostly mailinglists with some rare once a month ~10-50mb
>  file (and the spam/viriis everyone receives these days ...)
>* limiting POP3/SMTP access to a a single IP is fine too (my IP is dynamic
>  theoretical IIRC but it never changes ...)
>* and the server should be dependable (not going to dissapear in a year
>  or at least provide .forward after "dissapearing")
>
>  
>
I assume you rejected gmail (at least gmail+pop/ssl/tls)
Because of the lack of logging ?

Because if gmail is an option, half the people on this list will be glad 
to send you an invitation,
in the very unlikely case you don't have one already.






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