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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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NewNic on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:29PM (2 children)
I have suffered similar problems with running an email server, but I think that you haven't really touched on the worst issue.
There are ISPs and email providers that seem to have their own lists of spam sources. They refuse to accept email from me, despite it being sent from a private server in a datacenter, despite my IP address not being listed with any reputable spam block list. Perhaps my IP address was used to send spam before I got hold of it, but that was years ago. These ISPs simply don't care. They don't respond to any attempt to contact them to fix the issue.
Hotmail was also a source of problems. They had my IP address blacklisted, but at least they responded and removed my IP address. However, their listing was years old, based on how long I had control of the IP address.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:29PM (1 child)
To be honest, I haven't come across that issue. Primarily because I would have no idea if those emails are being blacklisted and for what reason (not like they ever tell you).
I mean, if my IP was used by spammers before, I would not know about it. It isn't like a remote mailserver will respond with "Yeah sorry, this IP is blocked since $date for spamming". Hence I mentioned that I can't ever be sure my emails actually reach their target.
It is a complete fiasco quite frankly, and you've added yet another layer of crap I didn't think of. Thanks, lol.
(Score: 2) by NewNic on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:36PM
What I have found is that, with Postfix (you are using Postfix, aren't you, not that abomination called Sendmail?) it is easy to create a list of domains for which outgoing email is routed through my ISP's mail server. No one is going to block any of Comcast's main outgoing email servers, so this is quite reliable. It requires a login, of course, but that is easy to configure.
lib·er·tar·i·an·ism ˌlibərˈterēənizəm/ noun: Magical thinking that useful idiots mistake for serious political theory