* In a message originally to Allen Prunty, mark lewis said:

 ML> then sign up with a free service... there are several available... heck,
 ML> for that matter, sign up with a bbs account ;)

I have an Icloud account... I was running SMTP/POP on my BBS but since
I dropped winserver I no longer have a SMTP/POP solution.  If I could
find something that would translate it to the BBS I would do it in a
new york minute.  I've yuet to find something to do that for me yet
with the exception of internet rex and I've not been able to get that
to work reliably.

 ML> i have maybe 15 or 20 email addresses that i check every day...
 ML> thunderbird hits them all at once when i tell it to check... many of my
 ML> email addresses are on my own email server but i've also several gmail,
 ML> yahoo, and hotmail addresses...

That's too many for me to keep track of... Much rather work on the
KISS (Keep it stupid simple) philosophy.  I use icloud because Apple
is very anti big-brother.  G-mail and the others if you read their TOS
they store the e-mail indefinately on their systems for marketing
research.  I don't trust them.... workign for the government e-mail
and trust is a big thing.  (Which is the one issue I have with
Hillary)

 ML> sorry but spamcop doesn't eat anything... it is a reporting service
 ML> only... your provider is filtering based on the results of queries to
 ML> the spamcop database... i used spamcop for several years to take back my
 ML> email acount from the spammers... i used to get over 300 spams a day

It's not the spamcop it's the "brightmail" that they use.  If a
mailing list does not conform to the new "spoof" proof mailing list
standards it won't work.  I can toatally see why it would reject
because most mailing list software now sends from the list name on
behalf of the user.  Previously (and yahoogroups used to work this
way) it would send directly in the user's name and e-mail address.

Now that the mailservers authenticate that the person really sent the
mail I can totally appreciate the rejection of it.  In fact many of
the "free" providers... especially Google, Yahoo, AOL or
Outlook.com/hotmail will reject if the mail is not authenticated
properly since they were the ones who developed this standard
collectively.

Allen


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