If you were given a link to this page after requesting an exmsft.com account then it’s been set up; welcome to the ranks. Please read this entire page. You now have a new email address of the form oldalias@exmsft.com, where “oldalias” is your old Microsoft alias. I have no control, influence or information on what happens […]
Converting from a forwarder to POP3
July 1, 2015 by
Short version: You should have received your new exmsft.com email password. You can configure your POP3 client using the information in this post: POP3/SMTP account configuration. You can change your password using the information in this post: Changing your POP login password and … WebMail! Important: there is a quota, currently defaulting to 50 megabytes. If you accumulate too […]
The post-MailArmory plan
July 1, 2015 by
With the death of MailArmory, and the lack of viable alternatives, the plan now boils down to this: Convert all forwarders to POP3 accounts Stop forwarding, and thus stop getting black listed for forwarding spam Place the responsibility for most spam filtering on the user Remove MailArmory from the picture completely My goal will be […]
The problem with spam
June 21, 2015 by
With MailArmory on its last legs I wanted to outline exactly why spam is such a big issue for exmsft.com. As you might imagine, there’s a lot of spam headed at email addresses on the exmsft.com. While most, I’m sure, are typical, run of the mill, spam-the-world kinds of spam, I also suspect that there […]
New “one strike” rule for POP accounts
September 25, 2014 by
Effective immediately I’m instituting a “one strike” rule for POP3 account: if your exmsft.com POP3 account is found responsible for sending spam through the server, it will be suspended. I’m sorry to have to take this strong a measure, but I see no alternative. In recent weeks several major email providers have placed exmsft.com on […]
SSH, SFTP and FTP access
August 31, 2013 by
The item applies only to those folks that have “shell” access and/or personal websites hosted on exmsft.com. Those with other accounts can move along … nothing to see here. (And in case you’re wondering, this is provided as a legacy service to folks who had it since “the old days”. With few exceptions we’re not setting […]
Why am I being asked to verify this (possibly former) Microsoft employee?
June 29, 2012 by
exmsft.com provides email services for ex-Microsoft employees. If someone requests an account but is unable to send from their @microsoft.com email address we ask that they provide one or more references from existing Microsoft employees. If you’ve received such a confirmation request from the exmsft.com administrator (currently Leo Notenboom), that’s all that’s going on. We […]
Server Configuration
March 21, 2012 by
For some reason the demographics of exmsft.com tend towards the geeky – people entertained by things like server configurations and the like. Fine. As of May 28, 2022 exmsft.com runs on a VPS out at InMotion Hosting. The server is “dedicated”, in that it’s 100% dedicated to exmsft.com. Since it’s virtual we actually have no […]
Signing up for an exmsft.com email address
March 21, 2012 by
Signing Up IMPORTANT: for a variety of reasons (expanded on here), we are no longer providing forwarding services. Instead, we can provide POP3 accounts with 50MB quotas. Configuration information is here. What you’re asking for To be clear, what you will be requesting is a new email address of the form: alias<at>exmsft.com where “alias” is your […]
The exmsft.com meltdown of 2012
March 16, 2012 by
If you’re wondering if exmsft.com had been having problems, you’re quite correct – it was. Emphasis on “was”. In the first half of March 2012 the original exmsft.com had a major and terminal meltdown. This is the completely new exmsft.com server, and at the same time a new volunteer owner: Leo Notenboom. As a result […]