#linux email

[amalgamasreal]

On Personal InfoSec

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one of these posts and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides.

Browsers:

There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out.

Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN:

Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Proton VPN: Has easily the most amount of countries serviced, can take cash payments, and does offer port forwarding.

Email Provider:

Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Outlook.com you'll need to pay.

Proton Mail: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and fairly easy to setup and use. Offers a free option up to 1gb

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Email Client:

Thunderbird if you're on Windows or Linux

Apple Mail if you're on macOS

Cloud Storage:

Proton Drive: Encrypted cloud storage from the same people as Proton Mail.

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free, and open source.

Chat Clients:

Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode.

If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help.

I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[wayfire-official]

Incredible amount of shade thrown by "Betterbird", a fork of thunderbird, towards it's parent

[cplusplus-official]

Hey, so, following both me changing my name (and therefore having to switch up my account either way) and the recent controversy of Andy Yen using official Proton social media to glaze Trump, I'm looking to switch email providers.

I've heard good things about mailbox and StartMail, would love to hear opinions about either.

Would also love it if someone could point me to any resources related to self-hosting email, as I am having trouble finding solid write-ups. I know @rust-official you have some experience in it 👀

Many thanks for help in advance!

[ssruis]

Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.

[vivalamusaine]

Computers and phones and games and apps get stupider and more broken with every update and I'm sick of it

[phoenixfangs]

i didnt used to understand professors or bosses sending the most short, illegible, childish looking emails (sent from smart device tag, emojis, no capitalization, informal language, just signing it with their first name) for what is Supposed to be important work or business, until i started working in an office

i do not have the fucking energy to respond to every email with a well thought out, polite, professional, human response. ur getting an emoji reaction sent from my galaxy samsung s22+, stephanie, because after all of the reading and writing ive Been doing today, ur lucky i can even see straight

[vinnythepigeon]

"Self-Hosted" Email for Abyss Gazers Pt.1

Email is no fun. To a degree, we've all sold our souls to Google Cloud and Microsoft 365 because of how un-fun email is. Self-hosting has become an "artisanal choice," something akin to candle making, or home brewing. I've sort of done it, and like your friend that made something they claim to be IPA, I'm going to tell you about it whether you like it or not.

But yeah, email is no fun. It's kind of our fault. We sent far too many silly emails to fair too many people. Some of these emails even had worms (billion dollar worms, for that matter). Now the whole thing is tied up in red tape, protocols, and the endless battle of trust. Truthfully, sending an email isn't that hard. Sending an email and not having Gmail or Microsoft immediately throw it at your face and laugh: that's a bit tricky. Even getting past all hurdles, you may be spending a lot of extra time telling your friends and business partners to check their spam folder.

All that being said, I've glimpsed into the abyss, and can share with you a small portion of its immense darkness. You'll need a domain. You'll need a public IP. You'll need a surprising number of DNS records. You'll also need Debian, because it's boring and it works, and because I deal with enough Red Hat at my day job. Truthfully, anywhere you can use postfix, dovecot, and openssl should work.

My candlelight grows dim. Until next time.

To be continued

[ghedin]

Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”.

[shadowblade8192]

i use this

(used to use a discord server but then i found out about this when i got a steam deck)

i do also keep that old server around for an emoji server cause i have fakenitro on vencord

does anybody else have a discord server thats only yourself and nobody else exclusively used to send images from your mobile phone to your tablet or computer

[linuxiarzepl]

Evolution

Evolution lub GNOME Evolution (dawniej Novell Evolution i Ximian Evolution, przed przejęciem Ximian przez Novell w 2003r.) jest oficjalnym menedżerem informacji osobistych dla GNOME. https://biznes.linuxiarze.pl/evolution/

[blackmoreops]

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[haridiva]

Mengenal Evolution: Klien Email Serbaguna untuk Desktop GNOME

Jika kamu mencari klien email yang andal dan terintegrasi sempurna dengan desktop GNOME, Evolution adalah jawabannya. Lebih dari sekadar aplikasi email biasa, Evolution menggabungkan email, kalender, kontak, tugas, dan catatan dalam satu platform terpadu yang memudahkan aktivitas harianmu. Saya yang biasanya menggunakan Thunderbird di Linux, kali ini mencoba menggunakan Evolution. Antarmuka…

[unixbhaskar]

Mutt Email Client Send Contents Of File Directly Pasting On The Mail Bod...

[keiitopop]

someone keeps trying to change my animal jam password LMAO? i haven't played since 2018, no idea what's going on.

[abbiistabbii]

I don't think people realize how absolutely wild Linux is.

Here we have an Operating system that now has 100 different varieties, all of them with their own little features and markets that are also so customizable that you can literally choose what desktop environment you want. Alongside that it is the OS of choice for Supercomputers, most Web servers, and even tiny little toy computers that hackers and gadget makers use. It is the Operating System running on most of the world's smartphones. That's right. Android is a version of Linux.

It can run on literally anything up to and including a potato, and as of now desktop Linux Distros like Ubuntu and Mint are so easily to use and user friendly that technological novices can use them. This Operating system has had App stores since the 90s.

Oh, and what's more, this operating system was fuckin' built by volunteers and users alongside businesses and universities because they needed an all purpose operating system so they built one themselves and released it for free. If you know how to, you can add to this.

Oh, and it's founder wasn't some corporate hotshot. It's an introverted Swedish-speaking Finn who, while he was a student, started making his own Operating system after playing around with someone else's OS. He was going to call it Freax but the guy he got server space from named the folder of his project "Linux" (Linus Unix) and the name stuck. He operates this project from his Home office which is painted in a colour used in asylums. Man's so fucking introverted he developed the world's biggest code repo, Git, so he didn't have to deal with drama and email.

Steam adopted it meaning a LOT of games now natively run in Linux and what cannot be run natively can be adapted to run. It's now the OS used on their consoles (Steam Deck) and to this, a lot of people have found games run better on Linux than on Windows. More computers run Steam on Linux than MacOS.

On top of that the Arctic World Archive (basically the Svalbard Seed bank, but for Data) have this OS saved in their databanks so if the world ends the survivors are going to be using it.

On top of this? It's Free! No "Freemium" bullshit, no "pay to unlock" shit, no licenses, no tracking or data harvesting. If you have an old laptop that still works and a 16GB USB drive, you can go get it and install it and have a functioning computer because it uses less fucking resources than Windows. Got a shit PC? Linux Mint XFCE or Xubuntu is lightweight af. This shit is stopping eWaste.

What's more, it doesn't even scrimp on style. KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon, all look pretty and are functional and there's even a load of people who try make their installs look pretty AF as a hobby called "ricing" with a subreddit (/r/unixporn) dedicated to it.

Linux is fucking wild.