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Email service provider #CampaignMonitor kicked out Trump's team, trimming his weekly email campaigns from 33 to zero #deplatforming https://www.theblaze.com/amp/companies-cut-ties-donald-trump-2649807148

SolarWinds Hackers’ Attack on Email Security Company Raises New Red Flags: Customers of #Mimecast were targeted in cyberattack, showing the multiple layers of potential victims at risk, says WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/solarwinds-hackers-attack-on-email-security-company-raises-new-red-flags-11610510375

@phpList liked our article on #Gmail's selfish manipulation of email networks that they reposted it on phpList.org 😊 https://www.phplist.org/googledown-happens-every-day-for-mailops-admins/ #SMTP #GoogleDown

Angela Merkel and Alexi Navalny unite in criticising Twitter for policing #FreeSpeech and blocking Donald Trump. It couldn't happen to email: the only major comms platform that's autonomously run, #censorship-resistant and un-deplatform-able https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniefillion/2021/01/11/angela-merkel-criticizes-trumps-twitter-eviction/?sh=74acda1a7813 #CancelCulture

Today's milestone: 400 merge requests accepted, and 1,500 commits made! Includes bug fixes applied, merged, tested by users, and validated on a /Monday/ before lunch #MondayMotivation https://media.giphy.com/media/xfR4J1y61nDnW/giphy.gif

#Phishing malware #AgentTesla can now compromise two Open Source mail clients, as well as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Fortunately they're not so widely used... https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/agenttesla-malware-has-updated-data-harvesting-capabilities-a-15617

Delivered just in time for Christmas: Lightmeter 1.1.0 packed full of features and fixes that were on Christmas (issue tracker) lists! Brought to you by 11 not-so-secret Santas, contributing 1st time from the #OpenSource community 🎅🎁🎁 https://lightmeter.io/release-notes-1-1-0/ #SMTP #Postfix

64 Million "pointless emails" sent every day in the UK, emitting the carbon equivalent to 3,334 flights to Spain each year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/nov/26/pointless-emails-theyre-not-just-irritating-they-have-a-massive-carbon-footprint #email #CarbonFootprint

#GoogleDocs and #Office365 alternative #Hancom Office adds email and calendaring to their suite, powered by #emclient. The package is available for self-hosting, including as a @nextcloud app thanks to a recent partnership https://martechseries.com/content/email-mktg/hancom-announces-hancom-mail/

Sysadmins on Reddit seem to agree: 74 Upvotes and 1,500 readers of Friday's post "#GoogleDown happens every day for mailops admins" https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/kfjq09/googledown_happens_every_day_for_mailops_admins/ #sysadmin #DevOps

A new Release Candidate is out: Lightmeter 1.1.0-RC1, including all the fixes that could fit into three weeks since 1.0 - make sure your bugs got squashed: try out the new binaries #postfix #smtp https://lightmeter.io/release-candidate-1-1-0-rc1/

Blog: When Google went down this week it caused chaos for mailserver admins. #GoogleDown was a mistake, but #Gmail deliberately breaks email every day https://lightmeter.io/googledown-happens-every-day-for-mailops-admins/

Today's interview: Bamburg digital agency http://GlobalDigital.de. Lightmeter helps their self-hosting of office mail and email marketing for clients. As specialists in ecommerce using #Shopware and #Typo3, they host all projects in Germany following 25 years in the business.

#Gmail continues to reject valid mail following yesterday's #GoogleDown outage, as detected by @lightmeter. Watch out for: "550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist" - these are soft bounces, labelled as hard bounces, causing losses & user blocklisting

Yesterday's Google outage affected email too - messages to Google mailservers were bouncing in many parts of the world. If you use automatic blacklisting of bounced email addresses, now's a good time to check yesterday's logs #Gmail #GoogleDown

"Freedom and autonomy to write quality new #OpenSource code, every day" — that's the best thing about working at @lightmeter, according to engineers Leandro and Marcel. A new #Golang Craftsperson position is now open on @fossjobs https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10308/golang-craftsperson-at-lightmeter/ #ITjob

We're hiring! #Golang Craftsperson is sought in Berlin, Germany, to join our #OpenSource @lightmeter team. Our mission is to strengthen the foundations of digital society by making mailtech easy and convenient. Apply for this #job on #AngelList: https://angel.co/company/lightmeter/jobs/853633-golang-craftsperson