I didn't expect to have to spend today grieving the loss of #Thunderbird at work. It's been my email client for 22 years. And I fucking hate #Gmail. Goddamnit.

Why has my work version of #Thunderbird suddenly decided to not remember how to log into #GMail?! ARGH!!!!!

Geopolítica

If you use #Gmail, you need to know about this #phishing attack, as described by Malwarebytes Labs: "Cybercriminals are abusing Google’s infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google ... to persuade people into handing over their Google #account #credentials." https://tinyurl.com/47y6pvus

it takes more than 600MB RAM having two opened gmail tabs. It takes far less using a mail checker extension.

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OMG.

I’m trying to burn my #google bridges and I realize my contacts are split between #icloud and #gmail. I exported my contacts from #takeout to a .vcf file and imported it to iCloud on the web, where all of my combined contacts are now showing.

But they aren’t all pushing to my iPhone… I’ve turned contacts on/off, force closed the Contacts app, turned my phone on/off, turned off all other contact accounts, & all combos of these. 144 unidentified contacts still won’t sync to my phone. WTF.

Gmail’s New #Encrypted Messages Feature Opens a Door for #Scams

#Google is rolling out an end-to-end encrypted email feature for business customers, but it could spawn #phishing attacks, particularly in non-Gmail inboxes.
#gmail #e2ee #encryption

https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-scams/

#Google is super efficient when it comes to locking innocent users out of their Google accounts, causing them to lose all their email, photos, and other data. They won't even listen to cost effective suggestions for fixing this. They just don't care about those users. But when it comes to stopping OBVIOUS dangerous phishes being sent out from #Gmail, they play helpless and flood the Internet with them. Disgusting.

GOOGLE! Do something about the endless scourge of fake #PayPal invoices pouring out of #Gmail (confirmed as coming from #Google, not spoofed). You don't even mark all of these as phishes to other Gmail subscribers, and you FLOOD non-Gmail platforms with them.

THESE ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

They should be easy for your super-duper-AI to detect. Here's a signal for you: The fake invoices virtually always include fake phone numbers for PayPal. That's the whole point, the scammers don't want email back, they want victims to call so they can scam them for payment information over the phone.

I've seen about six of these today in just a few hours. It's getting worse every day. Get off your asses and FIX THIS! Your inaction is putting vast numbers of people at risk.

#Apple Tech question for the #fediverse - I use Apple Mail on my mac, and have all my accounts (of which there are plenty) sent to delete mail NOT archive. However, I notice on my Gmail account it still has 1000's of messages in Archive, including new mail that comes in and mail I have recently deleted. Is this a Gmail thing or an Apple Mail thing? If the later, how do I fix in Mail, if the later, where do I stop this behavior if not in Apple Mail? #gmail #appleMail

I'm utterly fed up with the vast quantity of dangerous phishing emails that are sent from #Gmail (yes, verified as coming from #Google servers, not spoofed). While Google is pretty good at detecting INCOMING spams and phishing attempts for Gmail, Google still appears to permit OUTGOING phishes (that is, to non-Gmail servers) to utterly flourish.

The majority of these I see every day now come from Gmail. And the "payload" for many of these are GCP (Google Cloud Platform) servers. Fake PayPal phishes (that even bypass DKIM checks) are particularly numerous, but many don't even try to forge the From:, they just use their Gmail addresses, hoping to entrap as many users as possible.

Does Google care about this? Apparently not, probably because these are largely the same class of non-techie users Google routinely shows disdain for (e.g., in account lockout situations).

Do I need to write another formal blog post on this?

L

Some relief ,
My main motivation of maintaining developing my own infra is to get rid of #gmail
I mean even if i ignore the privace, the lockins , as an app too i don't find it worth using

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I have like 5 accounts that I can’t use my personal e-mail for so I’m looking to find a GMail alternative for them to continue my journey to be 100% off Google products.

Does any email provider (paid or free) offer the same level of deliverability, uptime, and have something similar to Google’s Advanced Protection Program (https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/)?