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Should #OpenSource projects use #trademarks? Do they contradict pro-freedom principles? In this article we outline the benefits, both practical and philosophical, and explain our own strategy https://lightmeter.io/why-trademark-open-source-software/ (Thanks to @ShaneCurcuru@mastodon.network for inspiration!)

Mail client/service Hey.com adds "email to blog" feature for all customers, including email notifications for blog subscribers. A first for a mail hosting service? #blogging #microblogging https://world.hey.com/jason/hey-world-b02a6f2e

Yandex Employee Caught Selling Access to Users' Email Inboxes, 4,887 email accounts breached. #Yandex "notified affected mailbox owners to change their passwords" — no kidding! #InsiderThreats https://thehackernews.com/2021/02/yandex-employee-caught-selling-access.html

New #Thunderbird addon "#ThirdStats" adds very pretty usage statistics on your email management habits, including date and contact filtering, and folder and temporal distribution Via @ghacks and @CaschysBlog #OpenSourceInnovation https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/15/thirdstats-adds-visualized-statistics-to-thunderbird-email-accounts/

The Lightmeter February newsletter is out featuring a month's worth of articles and social media news wrapped up in a slick single digest. Subscribe ➡️ You've got mail 📬 https://lightmeter.io/february-2021-newsletter/

Lightmeter 1.3.0 released: News alerts for email #Deliverability and global network disruption are now included on your Observatory dashboard, and log processing speed gets boosted #smtp #postfix https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-1-3-0

"The digital ad ecosystem is about to change…Mobile ID permissions and 3rd party cookies are crumbling — the email address will become the de facto user ID". @OnlyInfluencers imagines email's coming golden age for #DigitalMarketing #AdTech https://www.onlyinfluencers.com/email-marketing-blog-posts/best-practice-email-strategy/entry/bye-bye-cookie-monster-what-do-pending-digital-ad-ecosystem-changes-mean-for-email-marketing

And Lightmeter is now available in Greek 🇬🇷! Thank you Kristina Keivanai for your single-handed language success 💃 Check it out: https://translate.lightmeter.io/languages/el/controlcenter/

Mozilla #Thunderbird outlines audacious 6 month feature roadmap, including #JMAP support(!), rewritten contact management, richer email editor (with #OpenGraph & markdown), improved #OpenPGP support, and more https://www.ghacks.net/2021/02/10/thunderbird-team-outlines-plans-for-the-email-client/

A release candidate for Lightmeter 1.3.0 (RC2) is ready for testing. Several user-reported fixes included as usual (thank you! 💌). Final due next week. Details 👉 https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-1-3-0-rc1/

Nice 4-minute introduction to ARC (Authenticated Received Chain) from Postmark, or how to stop forwarded emails and #mailinglists from failing #DMARC. Hint: use #OpenARC! https://postmarkapp.com/blog/what-is-arc-or-authenticated-received-chain

Inbox security systems asleep on the job? One mail *client* is supplementing mailserver security: #EdisonMail introduces their own background remote mailserver checker for mobile #MailClient users. Valid-#DMARC not required (why 😩) https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/03/edison-mail-adds-advanced-spam-and-phishing-detection-but-itll-cost-you/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

#Office365 login credentials stolen via #phishing campaign orchestrated via Google Firebase, with embedded iFrame to hide real origin of O365-themed pages, successfully bypasses Microsoft's own spam detection https://threatpost.com/microsoft-office-365-attacks-google-firebase/163666/

The "largest ever" database of user passwords has been published for free on a public forum, paired with 3.2 billion unique email addressed, collected from combined pre-existing sources. It includes a convenient querying script #comb #infosec #dataleak https://cybernews.com/news/largest-compilation-of-emails-and-passwords-leaked-free/

Importing a medium size logset just got >50% faster thanks to this database caching merge request (from 30 to 14 seconds) 🐇💨 #sqlite https://gitlab.com/lightmeter/controlcenter/-/merge_requests/480

Today's Lightmeter 1.2.0 release includes a whole new way to interpret mail logs; it's called Ray Chaser (rhymes with mail tracer Winking face) and here's what it can do for your #Postfix #mailops monitoring and #deliverability https://lightmeter.io/introducing-ray-chaser-email-tracing-engine/

Lightmeter 1.2.0 is out! Introducing a new email tracing system for more accurate #Postfix delivery stats, support for #Zimbra mailservers, and nightly #Docker images. Something fun for the weekend 🏍️ https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-1-2-0/

Ex-FBI agent gets 12 month suspended prison term for falsifying contents of an email used to obtain a warrant, which enabled surveillance of a Trump campaign advisor. #PGP / #GPG signatures, anyone? https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/29/fbi-lawyer-trump-russia-probe-email-463750

Major disruption and peaking bounces today as Spamcop loses control of its domain, and valid IPs are listed on #Spamcop RBLs. Did their domain renewal mail get junked? #RBL https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/l9asw7/spamcop_domain_expiredparked/