Spam filtering is apparently now illegal in Texas. Senders who are blocked can sue for $10/msg up to $25K/day 🤯 It's supposed to protect freedom of speech 🧐 Via J.Levine/Mailop. #AntiSpam #Censorship blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2021/…

Who emails images to themselves from their phone because that's just the easiest way to get them onto your pc?

Coming soon to Lightmeter: crowdsourced #mailserver automation - announcing the introduction of a new automated peer network, for improving mailserver security and performance lightmeter.io/coming-soon-cr… #Postfix #SMTP

probably gonna start an interesting flamewar here "email has always provided most of the desirable properties that blockchains claim to provide"

Lightmeter 1.9 released, introducing a new peer network for large-scale collaboration. How much better would email be if the servers that hosted them worked together instead of against each other? Let's find out 🤝 lightmeter.io/lightmeter-1-9…

Nobody: "How come email never had a global outage?" 🤔 #FacebookDown

If WhatsApp infrastructure were owned by users, not Facebook, then #FacebookDown could only affect one household at a time. Communicating with family and work is too important to be the job of one company. Decentralize now! #EmailFTW

When's the last time your mailboxes were down 5 hours? Time to show some love for ~1 million email admins who keep our inboxes flowing 24/7/365 😇 #facebookdown #smtp #linux

Turns out 3m indie servers and 1m admins are good at keeping messages flowing. Ask your nearest email admin (don't ask Facebook) #resilience #facebookdown

Making #OpenSource apps easy to update is really important. Case in point: #GitLab 😬 Only 21% of 60k public #GitLab installs have applied a critical 6 month security update thehackernews.com/2021/11/alert-… @Cloud68HQ

Behind every email is a trail of Delivery Status Notification (DSN) codes, recording success or failure. But the terms are tormenting: is DSN just a code, a message, an "Enhanced code" (ESC), or all of the above? Our new dictionary reveals all lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/… #smtp

Did you know that email greylisting can be applied at five different stages of delivery & processing? Today's new knowledgebase article explains which produces the fewest false positives #Greylisting #SMTP #AntiSpam lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…

Greylisting introduces mysterious delays and colossal inefficiencies - our deliverability expert explains these and other issues in today's new knowledgebase article #greylisting #SMTP #deliverability lightmeter.io/knowledgebase/…

We scanned the world's mailservers and found 92% of them running #OpenSource software - see what else was discovered in preliminary results just published lightmeter.io/mailmap-global… #SMTP #nmap #postfix

Interview by the EC's NGI about the challenges facing email, and how Lightmeter is helping: "When hosting email is as easy as hosting WordPress, then everyone can keep their private communications in a trustworthy place" #decentralized #dataSovereignty

We had a great talk with Dutch hosting company CloudCat.nl and are happy to see Lightmeter supporting them in enabling high-deliverability hosted email for non-profit and other organisations in the Netherlands 🐱❤️

Spam blacklisting is out of control, says Hacker News. Lightmeter to the rescue!: ✅ Monitoring of >100 RBLs ✅ Show blocked mail ✅ Advice on delisting ✅ Soon: customize RBLs checked news.ycombinator.com/item?id=302227… #mailops #rbls

And multi-host support has just been merged into Lightmeter Control Center after more than two years in the backlog 😊 Soon you can monitor many mailservers from a single Lightmeter instance #Postfix #SMTP

Gmail hack bypasses passwords and 2FA, targets Chrome and Edge, used on specific accounts, requires OS level compromise, most likely sponsored by North Korea www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes… #Gmail #infosec #Security

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