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Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 14 Aug 2011, 04:53 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,745
Posted By Mechant Loup
I am on Linux. I do know the UNIX "each tool...

I am on Linux. I do know the UNIX "each tool solves a single task well" model, and subscribe to it most of the time, since I work with the shell as much as possible.

But when you need to set up your...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 13 Aug 2011, 03:43 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,745
Posted By Mechant Loup
At the time I played with various email clients I...

At the time I played with various email clients I passed on mutt because everyone told me it had really poor IMAP support. So I started learning and configuring Pine instead and have used it...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 13 Aug 2011, 02:25 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,745
Posted By Mechant Loup
Alpine is very, very fast. I've got Alpine set...

Alpine is very, very fast.

I've got Alpine set up for three different IMAP accounts, but am not by any means any kind of expert on it.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 10 Aug 2011, 01:34 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,266
Posted By Mechant Loup
What is the exact nature of your problem? You...

What is the exact nature of your problem?

You use the account manager, not e.g. the webmail interfaces. Then you either edit an existing address (listed based on the domain selected on the drop-down...
Forum: Email Help Needed! 7 Aug 2011, 10:08 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 4,354
Posted By Mechant Loup
I think it typically works with hosted services...

I think it typically works with hosted services such as Tuffmail etc. so that you indeed have a mailbox/account, with one user/pw combo, and then you can create any number of aliases within that...
Forum: FastMail Forum 7 Aug 2011, 09:06 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 8,265
Posted By Mechant Loup
Is this true even with such spam filtering...

Is this true even with such spam filtering services as Messagelabs, MX Logic, Postini, etc? I think they are mainly aimed at businesses and hence shouldn't mind high volumes even for "home" users,...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 7 Aug 2011, 02:25 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 9,097
Posted By Mechant Loup
Note that if you send and receive your amil...

Note that if you send and receive your amil unencrypted, it is going to be read by a number of intelligence organizations any way, both within and outside the USA. If you're a business, and even...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 7 Aug 2011, 02:05 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,569
Posted By Mechant Loup
If I remember correctly, you can get a shorter...

If I remember correctly, you can get a shorter poll interval for an additional fee.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 1 Oct 2010, 07:42 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 12,397
Posted By Mechant Loup
Using a known language as an encryption scheme...

Using a known language as an encryption scheme doesn't sound a very good idea to me :)

If you want to communicate privately, you have to encrypt the data yourself with a sound encryption scheme....
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 21 May 2009, 05:34 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 4,760
Posted By Mechant Loup
Some quick thoughts. I gave up Runbox for...

Some quick thoughts.

I gave up Runbox for Tuffmail because I needed a reliable, fast IMAP service. Runbox IMAP was just plain horrible -- the Runbox speed issues are well known and often discussed....
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 14 Dec 2008, 08:20 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,744
Posted By Mechant Loup
People put online not only .doc files or exes....

People put online not only .doc files or exes. Sometimes they put online .tar files or .7z files or .iso files or .mkv files or...

Anyhow, I have found the max upload size ludicrously small. It...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 14 Dec 2008, 09:55 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,744
Posted By Mechant Loup
Ehh? You can't use Skydrive for larger files: The...

Ehh? You can't use Skydrive for larger files: The max upload size is 50MB per file. So, it is not a backup or file-sharing oriented service. I don't know to whom or tho what kind of use it is...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 14 Dec 2008, 09:06 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,744
Posted By Mechant Loup
You should use a number of places where you store...

You should use a number of places where you store the files, not just one, despite however reliable they claim to be.

If I were you, I'd do the following:

First of all:
- Encrypt all the data with...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 6 Dec 2008, 05:40 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,254
Posted By Mechant Loup
Who knows? And as long as the mods will let us...

Who knows? And as long as the mods will let us go, who cares :)

OK, seriously, further posts to this thread should perhaps have something to do with what the OP said, whatever that was.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 6 Dec 2008, 02:57 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 7,388
Posted By Mechant Loup
PGP or GnuPG with your favourite IMAP...

PGP or GnuPG with your favourite IMAP service.

Edit: Safe-Mail might be worthy a closer look.
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 5 Dec 2008, 04:29 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,254
Posted By Mechant Loup
Verizon accounted to perhaps less than 1% of...

Verizon accounted to perhaps less than 1% of Nokia's sales. Nokia does not make CDMA phones any more, although they may sell some designed and manufactured by others under their own brand....
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 5 Dec 2008, 12:04 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,254
Posted By Mechant Loup
Nokia makes most of their phones themselves. Of...

Nokia makes most of their phones themselves. Of the 1.3-1.5 million phones they manufacture a day, according to a source I had, about 80-90% is made in Nokia's own plants around the world....
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 4 Dec 2008, 11:40 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 7,388
Posted By Mechant Loup
The security of this service is impossible to...

The security of this service is impossible to evaluate. They offer no white papers or anything to explain how they do this stuff. That they use a certain algorithm at some state of the encryption...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 1 Dec 2008, 06:49 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 5,563
Posted By Mechant Loup
I have no idea what you meant by this comment. Of...

I have no idea what you meant by this comment. Of course it can be a red flag to the system admin when an employee uses HTTPS GMail instead of their work email when sending from their work computer....
Forum: Runbox Forum 1 Dec 2008, 05:05 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,057
Posted By Mechant Loup
A few months back, I finally gave up on Runbox...

A few months back, I finally gave up on Runbox due to the horribly slow IMAP and the inability to train the spam filter with an IMAP client. Runbox is simply not an IMAP-geared service.

I'm on...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 1 Dec 2008, 04:54 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 5,563
Posted By Mechant Loup
No. The data packets go through the compnay LAN....

No. The data packets go through the compnay LAN. The firewall records IP's and other info. The admin will learn, if they want, where he is connecting to, with what kind of packets, and when, etc....
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 30 Nov 2008, 07:33 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 5,563
Posted By Mechant Loup
Do not worry about someone intercepting your...

Do not worry about someone intercepting your credit card number on transit; worry about someone breaking into the host's system and grabbing all the credit card numbers stored neatly in a database...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 30 Nov 2008, 07:18 AM
Replies: 40
Views: 5,563
Posted By Mechant Loup
If you do not always need to use email, you may...

If you do not always need to use email, you may also want to look at OTR, http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

for encrypted instant messaging. It is very easy to use and very well done. You can actually...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 29 Nov 2008, 02:42 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,810
Posted By Mechant Loup
If I were using my email for my business, I'd not...

If I were using my email for my business, I'd not hesitate to pay what Tuffmail asks per year. People spend more on their internet connections or mobile phones per month than Tuffmail (or Fastmail,...
Forum: Email Comments, Questions and Miscellaneous 24 Nov 2008, 10:44 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 5,755
Posted By Mechant Loup
No. it is the best of the free providers, but...

No. it is the best of the free providers, but free can, it seems, even at its best only take you so far... I use Gmail for some backup purposes. I transfer the backed-to-be-up data over IMAP so I can...
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