On 08 Jul 22 23:12:14, Tengri Temujin said the following to All:

I am seeking a BBS or retro network that offers secure Internet
email
with POP3 or IMAP access with SSL/TLS. Bonus if it can relay
messages to
and from from FIDONET / DOVE-NET or other boutique networks.

Fidonet and Othernets do not and will not offer this.

The benefit to me is that these small system network ops take great
care
of their customers, and they don't have artificial intelligence
algorithms scanning the messages, or loon employees doxing people's emails.

If you are concerned about these things then why not just get a static
IP or
rent a VM/VPS from a service like Ovh.ca and host your email system?

Atreyu


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On 10/25/22 15:27, Atreyu wrote:

On 08 Jul 22 23:12:14, Tengri Temujin said the following to All:

I am seeking a BBS or retro network that offers secure Internet
email
with POP3 or IMAP access with SSL/TLS. Bonus if it can relay
messages to
and from from FIDONET / DOVE-NET or other boutique networks.

Fidonet and Othernets do not and will not offer this.

The benefit to me is that these small system network ops take great
care
of their customers, and they don't have artificial intelligence algorithms scanning the messages, or loon employees doxing people's emails.

If you are concerned about these things then why not just get a static
IP or
rent a VM/VPS from a service like Ovh.ca and host your email system?

The benefit is that someone else is already doing all the administrative
work. Why repeat all that work if I can just pay someone else to do it?

I do not want to go with advertised email providers because they all
violate privacy. They say that they don't but I know they lie like rugs.

A small-scale sysop cannot afford the reputation burn of rifling through emails or doxing and thus is far less likely to do so.

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Tengri Temujin

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On 07 Nov 22 05:16:19, Tengri Temujin said the following to Atreyu:

If you are concerned about these things then why not just get a
static
IP or
rent a VM/VPS from a service like Ovh.ca and host your email system?

The benefit is that someone else is already doing all the
administrative
work. Why repeat all that work if I can just pay someone else to do
it?

If you pay another person to do this for you, you're back to the "trust

factor" you mentioned before. You are placing your trust in them that
they
will host it correctly, not inexplicably crash, not snoop through your
mail.
You're back to the same concern you would have with a typical email
provider.

The old saying - When you want something done right, you do it
yourself... The
real solution to your request is to host everything on a private
cloud-hosted
server or your own equipment at home via. a static-IP address.

Thats what I did here, 17 years ago... for the same concerns you have.

Atreyu


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