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

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 NewNic on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:36PM

    by NewNic (6420) on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:36PM (#535890) Journal

    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.

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