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2015-07-17: POP3 Migration Complete

We no longer have a spam filter sitting in front of exmsft.com. As a result: No new forwarding accounts are being created, POP3 accounts (with some limitations) are available. Please read The post-MailArmory plan for details. POP3 accounts have been created for all forwarders, and email has been sent to each forwarded-to email account with the […]

The post-MailArmory plan

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

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 […]