Is #MailFence down?

[Again for those on the other side of the pond] -

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps rolled past the number of people in my home country. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

Leider wird dies in vielen Firmen nicht umgesetzt:

»Warum du deine E-Mails sichern solltest – und wie du das machst.
Datensicherungen sind langweilig – bis du sie einmal brauchst. Gerade bei E-Mails zeigt sich, wie schnell ein Verlust teuer oder ärgerlich werden kann. Das gilt nicht nur für Unternehmen, sondern auch im privaten Umfeld. Dabei ist Vorsorge hier mit überschaubarem Aufwand möglich.«

https://t3n.de/news/e-mail-sichern-backup-1700906/

I didn’t plan on writing this, but I’ve written a short reply to @daj 's excellent reply to my previous article on how to encrypt your mailbox:

https://kedara.eu/why-encrypt-email

Now I’m done obsessing over email for the foreseeable future! But as always, I'd love to hear your perspective.

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

I hope this email finds you dancing naked in the surf on a moonless night, the ocean glowing with blue luminescence as it crashes about you.

You won't see me, of course, but I'll see you.

#email
#creepy

@emptywheel How #JohnDurham Buried #Evidence He Had Been Doing the Work of #Russian #Spies … and then #TulsiGabbard Buried. As I’ve been showing, the Durham #classified annex goes to significant lengths to hide that a #Russian #email discussing creating a #conspiracy theory about the American #DeepState, which he dates to July 26, precedes the draft SVR memo he claims has animated his years-long hunt, which dates to July 27 or later. https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/how-john-durham-buried-evidence-he-had-been-doing-the-work-of-russian-spies-and-then-tulsi-gabbard-buried-more/ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/09/how-john-durham-buried-evidence-he-had-been-doing-the-work-of-russian-spies-and-then-tulsi-gabbard-buried-more/ #maga

Question for fedi: does anyone have any experience with StartMail? Does it compare favourably or not with proton / tuta?

thanks!

I've written down the steps to #encrypt your existing #email and import it into Mailbox.org (but it should work for other providers as well), in order to have a zero-knowledge encrypted #mailbox:

https://kedara.eu/encrypting-old-emails

It took a lot of effort to figure everything out, so I hope it'll save you some time. If you have any feedback after reading the article, please let me know.

#blogpost #privacy #blaugust #blaugust2025 #mail #mailboxorg

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)

Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to woo the unwary spammer rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway.

It's time for a retrospective.

PSA: Allowing AI into your mailbox threatens your privacy.

Find out why AI should not be used in your mailbox here: https://tuta.com/blog/ai-email-writers-review

#Business #Explorations
Can I use the web without a proper browser? · The web browser’s future might be one without it https://ilo.im/165oqo

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#Web #Browser #SearchEngine #AI #Bookmarks #Website #RSS #Email #Newsletter #Streaming

Drodzy oszuści,

Skoro już chcecie mnie oszukać, to moglibyście się chociaż wysilić na tyle, żeby ustawić poprawny typ MIME dla maila, cobym zobaczył coś innego niż kupę kodu HTML-a z CSS-em.

Dear scammer,

If you want to scam me, you could at least bother setting the correct MIME type for your email, so I would actually see something else than a bunch of inline HTML with lots of CSS.

#Development #Explainers
Email tracking behind the scenes · How tracking pixels work, and how to turn them off https://ilo.im/165w4n

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#Business #EmailClient #Email #Newsletter #TrackingPixel #Tracking #Privacy #GDPR #WebDev #Frontend

Back to using KMail for my email client. It's still going to be confusing to setup for folks new to it, but the overall email organization and presentation suits me better than Thunderbird. #email #KDE #KMail

Seems my unknown enemy has topped up his botnet account again and is sending thousands of IP addresses to try to brute-force their way in to my mailserver. Blocketyblocking all of them :)

Getting Things Done + labels + keyboard shortcuts = and an organized inbox. Find out how to get started in our latest Maximize Your Day blog post!

#Thunderbird #Productivity #Email

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/maximize-your-day-getting-things-done-with-thunderbird/