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Eastlink Customer's 20-Year-Old Email Account Shut Down Over Unusual Address

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 06 2017, @06:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the retroactive-decisions dept.

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports:

A Halifax [Nova Scotia] man is facing the daunting task of going through almost two decades of email messages after his email provider served notice it was deactivating his account in 30 days because of his email address: noreply@eastlink.ca

"I had it since the late '90s, probably 1998 when I really started getting online," Steve Morshead told CBC News.

"I asked for it, it was available and they gave it to me without hesitation."

He said he picked the handle "noreply" because he wanted an unusual address--and back in the '90s, it was.

Morshead never expected to lose his email address, which he uses for communicating with everyone from friends to banks to lawyers. He is in the process of selling his home and says this couldn't come at a worse time.

[...] "Now, after all these years, 20 years almost, I find it reprehensible they want to pop out of bushes and just give me 30 days to go through 20 years worth of emails and decide what I want to keep," he said.

[...] Morshead did ask the company to transfer the contents from the existing email account to a new one but they said no.

"Just flat no. No offers of help. Just the bullying that 'We're going to do it, you're going to take it. That's it.'"

Also at The Inquirer.

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  • (Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Friday July 07 2017, @06:06AM (4 children)

    by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Friday July 07 2017, @06:06AM (#536023) Journal

    And, btw, I am doing nothing right with the email server.

    I have no MX record. I have no SPF record. I have no DKIM whatever. I'm not an open relay; I'm not actually spamming; but, that's about the only thing I'm doing right running that email server. I literally just did chmod +x rc.sendmail after installing Slackware.

    So I do absolutely zero kneeling before the anti-spam gods. No special DNS records to please them. No security-related recitations in the bodies of the messages. An IP with a history so horrible it makes antivirus programs faint at the sight of it (also: fuck antivirus programs). I am the absolute ugliest, shittiest possible domain to be getting emails from.

    And my emails get through. To GMail and Outlook 365. They never get dropped, ever, and they only ever go to spam in GMail, never Outlook 365.

    So, from my experience, self-hosted email is working. That's my personal experience only, of course, but I thought it was worth saying.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday July 07 2017, @07:50AM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday July 07 2017, @07:50AM (#536032) Homepage
    Get over yourself. My mail server's just as "turn it on and fuck the what the rest of the world wants" as much as yours, my IP address too, but I have the additional bonus of being the domain asdf.org - which has been joe-jobbed to death and back, and its mere existence in headers is enough to flag mails as spam.

    Yet strangely, we use that server for all client communication, we too just have to occasionally tell clients to check their spam folders, and point the finger at them, they have made the incorrect conclusion about the mail, not us.
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    • (Score: 1) by linuxrocks123 on Friday July 07 2017, @01:35PM (2 children)

      by linuxrocks123 (2557) on Friday July 07 2017, @01:35PM (#536103) Journal

      Thank you for the corroboration, but I don't think you needed to be rude to me? My point was "self-hosted email's death has been greatly exaggerated", not "I'm awesome for doing nothing at all". If I was forceful, it was only to counter the loud chorus of "evil megacorps drop any mail not from other evil megacorps as spam".