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  • Re: Debian-user vs Titan email

    From John Hasler@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, February 21, 2026 20:20:02
    nwe writes:
    If this continues, I will find some non-titan email to use

    Fastmail (formerly Pobox) works fine for me.
    --
    John Hasler
    john@sugarbit.com
    Elmwood, WI USA

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  • From Dan Ritter@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, February 21, 2026 20:40:01
    John Hasler wrote:
    nwe writes:
    If this continues, I will find some non-titan email to use

    Fastmail (formerly Pobox) works fine for me.

    Other direction: Fastmail bought Pobox, which had been an
    independent service for decades.

    -dsr-

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  • From John Hasler@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, February 21, 2026 21:50:01
    dsr writes:
    Other direction: Fastmail bought Pobox, which had been an
    independent service for decades.

    That's what I meant: my service was formerly Pobox and is now Fastmail.
    So far nothing has changed.
    --
    John Hasler
    john@sugarbit.com
    Elmwood, WI USA

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  • From Michel Verdier@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 22, 2026 00:20:01
    On 2026-02-21, Titus at Newswanger Electric wrote:

    ------=_Part_1323876_1214757844.1771697962674
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
    Content-Disposition: inline

    <div id=3D"isPasted" fr-original-style=3D"" style=3D"user-select: inherit; = scrollbar-color: var(--scrollbar-active-color) #0000; box-sizing: border-bo= x;"><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: sans-serif, arial; user-se=

    Please set your mail client with text only and not html only. It will be
    easier to read :)

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  • From Titus Newswanger@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 22, 2026 04:30:01
    Please set your mail client with text only and not html only.

    Bummer. I always send text only. But I was trying everything to get this
    to work. I switched to html only then it worked!

    Now I'm sending text only. Fingers crossed.
    --
    nwe

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  • From Titus Newswanger@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 22, 2026 04:40:01
    Please set your mail client with text only and not html only.

    Bummer. I always send text only. But I was trying everything to get this
    to work. I switched to html only then it worked!

    Now I'm sending text only. Fingers crossed.
    --
    nwe

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  • From Titus Newswanger@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 22, 2026 04:50:01
    Please set your mail client with text only and not html only.

    Bummer. I always send text only. But I was trying everything to get this
    to work. I switched to html only then it worked!

    Now I'm sending text only. Fingers crossed.

    edit:
    That did not work. I cannot send plain text emails to lists.debian.org
    using my titan mail account. I insist on sending text only. It's looking
    like titan or debian-user has to go. I will switch away from titan...
    --
    nwe

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  • From tomas@3:633/10 to All on Sunday, February 22, 2026 07:50:01
    On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 09:47:34PM -0600, Titus Newswanger wrote:
    Please set your mail client with text only and not html only.

    Bummer. I always send text only. But I was trying everything to get this to work. I switched to html only then it worked!

    Now I'm sending text only. Fingers crossed.

    edit:
    That did not work. I cannot send plain text emails to lists.debian.org using my titan mail account. I insist on sending text only. It's looking like
    titan or debian-user has to go. I will switch away from titan...
    For me it worked. All three times :-)
    And they are in the archives, too, e.g.:
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2026/02/msg00412.html
    Perhaps there is a delay (or a filter) at your input side?
    Cheers
    --
    t


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  • From nwe@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 06:40:01
    Finally, success!

    first I did some tests, it seems:
    Most emails I tried to send to debian-user from my titan mail account
    got blocked with a warning that I am sending spam. I completed the
    captcha and clicked force send.

    No response. A couple hours later responses started showing up in the archives. But emails I sent to the list never came back to my inbox.

    I tried sending one of my other email accounts an email like:
    subject: subscribe
    body: which nwe@mailtu.net

    and titan blocked that, informing me I am sending spam!

    This confirmed:
    it can't be debian-user list fault
    I need to find a different email provider.
    Here goes. It seems to work.

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  • From nwe@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 07:30:01
    On 2/23/26 11:22 PM, nwe wrote:

    Finally, success!

    Here goes. It seems to work.

    First I tried Fastmail but they refused to accept my phone number for
    account validation

    next I tried to get an account with disroot, but they say they're closed
    for the weekend, come back monday... monday is already past...

    Finally I decided this warrants scratching a longstanding itch: hosting
    my mail. So here I'm using my new toy, a 'free' email account that cost
    me lots of headache to set up :)

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