Hi Tom, Try using this hostname for imap: mail.comcast.net And use this hostname for smtp: smtp.comcast.net That should allow you to get a valid SSL cert. Let me know how that goes. Also, don't setup your own email. Setting up a dovecot server is fun, but maintaining it to work with all other email providers is a super big drag. Especially when people need to have their email flow without a problem. -- Jared On 12/7/18 5:02 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
OK, I *think* that having more or less successfully substituted imap.ge.xfinity.com for imap.comcast.net--currently with a certificate mis-match warning I don't yet know how to fix--is probably at least marginally more desirable than having to go through Xfinity mail website...
Because, going through the website, Comcast/Xfinity has greater opportunity to do their social engineering infantilization thing, further shape my perceptions, whither my digital self-reliance skillset, more fully exploit me as a consumer milk cow and allow government and corporations to better trace and predict my physical and economic movements should they desire to do so, etc.
But am I wrong, should I continue to use the website until I'm completely sure I have the certificate thing properly nailed?
On 12/7/18 4:13 PM, Casey Dentinger wrote:
I don't find receiving mail to be that bad but getting it successfully delivered is a place where the internet is hamstrung by corporations.
On 18-12-07 15:45:26, chochoms@earthlink.net wrote:
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From: Casey Dentinger <dentinger@regnitned.net> Sent: Dec 7, 2018 2:46 PM To: nmglug@lists.nmglug.org Subject: Re: [nmglug] Comcast refuses to send mail to Linux desktop email clients
That escalated quickly :)
Also you don't need imap if you just use mutt locally
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, at 2:43 PM, J Marsden DeLapp wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:49:39 -0700 jason schaefer <js@jasonschaefer.com> wrote:
On 12/1/18 10:47 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote: > What they can't steal from us most of seem to be willing to give to > them for free. So much for any hope of anonymity or privacy from > our > corporate overlords. Might as well let them tatoo a barcode on your > forehead--though that wouldn't be nearly as effective. Its worth pointing out that if you are concerned about these issues you shouldn't be using comcast for email... With a simple apt install postfix dovecot-imapd you can run your own mail server.
Mars
-- ============================================================= J. Marsden DeLapp, PE President I am following this discussion with great amusement. Maybe you guys know something I don't, but having your own email server or an email client on your desktop (phones of course are too insecure to use for anything important) seems like a lot of un-needed work trying to keep things secure. I concluded several years ago that I had neither the time nor the inclination (plus I am not expert enough in Linux) to harden my computer against email-carried malware. Also since someone could conceivably get into my computer I don't want them to have access to my email. Consequently I use web mail, (not GOOGLE!), because the ISP can do a lot better job than I at filtering out the malware and protecting against crackers. If I need to send something encrypted or very sensitive I use Protonmail from CERN.
Problem solved. Doesn't matter what Comcast or anyone else allows, plus I can check my mail on any computer in the world.
If I am wrong, please explain to this Linux neophyte why.
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