Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm ScottESanDiego/gmail-api-client 2026-01-20T10:13:55+00:00 https://github.com/ScottESanDiego/gmail-api-client jm via:jwz email smtp gmail google mail https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5f7fc55e2248/ Today in "Google broke email" 2026-01-08T11:58:38+00:00 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/today-in-google-broke-email-2/#comment-265285 jm email smtp pop3 gmail arc forwarding postfix openarc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fd624f9e6f4/ deep email lore 2025-08-25T16:20:35+00:00 https://lobste.rs/s/gvtlpo/email_is_easy_email_address_quiz#c_vkssdf jm email history 1970s via:fanf smtp ietf standards internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:219e04c983b2/ Hosting an email mailbox uses 3ml of water per year 2025-08-25T11:09:24+00:00 https://social.mythic-beasts.com/@beasts/115017750430627832 jm@cstross to put some numbers on it, one of our hosting VMs has ~1200 mailboxes using 1.5TB of SSD. Accounting for the CPU + RAM to allow the mail to be usable and searchable, you can get ~20 such servers on our standard 1U VM host, that uses ~250W. Approx 24k mailboxes on a server. A standard DC with adiabatic cooling would evaporate at most (likely much less) than 3500l of water per server per year or 145ml per account. We're in Telehouse South which uses 40x less water ~ 3ml/mailbox/year. Safe to say, email is not the problem, despite recent spoofery from the UK government's PR apparatus.]]> email smtp hosting water climate-change mythic-beasts datacenters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cd2c49106c9b/ Google Spoofed Via DKIM Replay Attack 2025-07-25T14:51:48+00:00 https://easydmarc.com/blog/google-spoofed-via-dkim-replay-attack-a-technical-breakdown/ jm phishing dkim dmarc google attacks exploits infosec email smtp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:95c450bb6da7/ notes on using an LLM for personal email search 2025-04-22T10:23:32+00:00 https://tech.lgbt/@nelson/114354175993793636 jm llms search email rag notmuch archives via:nelson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c46692a39314/ Yahoo Mail hallucinates subject lines 2025-02-24T11:54:54+00:00 https://www.eql.com/media/sneaker-bot-ai-error jmA quick Google search revealed that a few months ago Yahoo jumped on the AI craze with the launch of ”AI-generated, one-line email summaries”. At this point, the penny dropped. Just like Apple AI generating fake news summaries, Yahoo AI was hallucinating the fake winner messages, presumably as a result of training their model on our old emails. Worse, they were putting an untrustworthy AI summary in the exact place that users expect to see an email subject, with no mention of it being AI-generated 🤯 ]]> ai llms hallucinations yahoo email gen-ai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:83ac7a12264c/ Stop Using Encrypted Email 2020-02-20T09:37:22+00:00 https://latacora.singles/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html jmEmail is unsafe and cannot be made safe. The tools we have today to encrypt email are badly flawed. Even if those flaws were fixed, email would remain unsafe. Its problems cannot plausibly be mitigated. Key point: this isn't (just) about PGP or SMTP, it's email as a whole system:
The least interesting problems with encrypted email have to do with PGP. [...] But that’s a whole other argument. Even after we replace PGP, encrypted email will remain unsafe. Here's why: If messages can be sent in plaintext, they will be sent in plaintext. Metadata is as important as content, and email leaks it. Every archived message will eventually leak. Every long term secret will eventually leak.
]]> cryptography security email pgp smtp flaws metadata crypto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7b58a9501615/ the CO2 footprint of email is greatly exaggerated 2020-02-10T11:46:55+00:00 https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2020/02/08/getting-the-bottom-of-that-asinine-article-about-the-co2-footprint-of-email/ jmIf you care about the environmental impact of tech, worrying about email is not the place to spend your time and energy. Worry instead about the big tech companies accelerating the extraction of fossil fuels, when we need to keep them in the ground. [....] Worry instead about consulting companies you admire doing the same, and helping the same oil and gas companies, but keeping quiet about doing so. Worry about how blase we are about flying when it makes up a significant chunk of company emissions in many tech consultancies and enterprise sales teams. ]]> climate-change email factoids misinformation carbon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f68df6efacd5/ Oftel use a Yahoo! group to manage UK phone number assignments 2019-10-17T13:22:30+00:00 https://twitter.com/erincandescent/status/1184587323599736837 jmToday it was announced that Yahoo! Groups is shutting down, and taking with it a piece of critical national infrastructure: the Oftel Yahoo Group which is used for managing UK phone number assignments. ]]> funny history oftel fail phones phone-numbers yahoo yahoo-groups email https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:366d3828b53a/ mblaze-much/MANIFESTO.md 2018-09-17T10:22:05+00:00 https://github.com/dannyob/mblaze-much/blob/master/MANIFESTO.md jm email mail notmuch sup muas hacking unix cli mh https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c4b56acb5d7/ Yahoo! are scanning your email contents and selling data to advertisers 2018-08-29T21:03:24+00:00 https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1034908215513964544 jm yahoo privacy email mail amazon https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9b062df3f31f/ Interesting Twitter thread on email UI design, vs Slack 2018-03-14T11:46:01+00:00 https://twitter.com/jensenharris/status/973780680457928704 jm"When redesigning Outlook, we found two basic groups of users: pilers and filers. Pilers kept a single, ever-expanding list of mail in their Inbox and then worked it down to "inbox zero." Filers wrote rules or manually filed mail into folders, creating an organizational system. Filers rely on their bespoke, highly customized knowledge of where things go in their email system, much like you might organize your kitchen in a way that makes sense to you. You know where the strainer or little corn-cob-holders go, and no one else does (or needs to.) Pilers rely on search to find things in their huge amassed pile. We moved Outlook from the fundamental organization unit of "message" to "conversation" (or "thread") so that when pilers found mail via search, messages would return with the context of the surrounding conversation. Both pilers and filers have one key thing in common: their systems require an affirmative, discrete action to take a mail out of their list. Filers file to a folder when done with a message, and pilers archive/delete. This turned out to be essential for people to feel in control." really, "pilers" are using the UI that GMail pioneered, where credit is due (as far as I know at least). ]]> mail ux ui pilers-and-filers filepile email slack outlook https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:86e58ebaf276/ Spam is back | The Outline 2017-11-24T20:54:41+00:00 https://theoutline.com/post/2498/spam-is-back jm it’s 2017, and spam has clawed itself back from the grave. It shows up on social media and dating sites as bots hoping to lure you into downloading malware or clicking an affiliate link. It creeps onto your phone as text messages and robocalls that ring you five times a day about luxury cruises and fictitious tax bills. Networks associated with the buzzy new cryptocurrency system Ethereum have been plagued with spam. Facebook recently fought a six-month battle against a spam operation that was administering fake accounts in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Last year, a Chicago resident sued the Trump campaign for allegedly sending unsolicited text message spam; this past November, ZDNet reported that voters were being inundated with political text messages they never signed up for. Apps can be horrid spam vectors, too — TechCrunch writer Jordan Crook wrote in April about how she idly downloaded an app called Gather that promptly spammed everyone in her contact list. Repeated mass data breaches that include contact information, such as the Yahoo breach in which 3 billion user accounts were exposed, surely haven’t helped. Meanwhile, you, me, and everyone we know is being plagued by robocalls. “There is no recourse for me,” lamented Troy Doliner, a student in Boston who gets robocalls every day. “I am harassed by a faceless entity that I cannot track down.” “I think we had a really unique set of circumstances that created this temporary window where spam was in remission,” said Finn Brunton, an assistant professor at NYU who wrote Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, “and now we’re on the other side of that, with no end in sight.” (via Boing Boing)]]> spam privacy email social-media web robocalls phone ethereum texts abuse https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0f2e642c3b29/ "HTML email, was that your fault?" 2017-09-20T20:37:04+00:00 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/09/html-email-was-that-your-fault/ jm netscape history html email smtp mime mozilla jwz https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:939ee6fbe66a/ How to Easily Unsubscribe from Bulk Emails in Gmail - Unroll.me Alternative 2017-08-24T11:32:42+00:00 https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-unsubscribe/28806/ jm mainsleaze unsubscribe spam gmail google email one-bite-of-the-apple https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4137413cc867/ After Seven Years, Microsoft Is Finally Fixing the "J" Email Bug 2017-05-29T10:42:20+00:00 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/after-seven-years-microsoft-is-finally-fixing-the-j-email-bug/ jm microsoft fail operating-systems monoculture character-sets j wingdings exchange email https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:11d36cdb4e7f/ My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database 2015-08-23T21:26:31+00:00 https://evan.atavist.com/my-wife-found-my-email-in-the-ashley-madison-database jmThe reasons why these people give out my email instead of one that they can access have always been a bit mysterious to me. It’s one thing to save yourself some spam by using a throwaway address. But why use someone else’s for correspondence you actually want to receive? The closest I’ve come to a working theory is that a lot of them, having been slow off the mark to obtain their own gmail, have addresses like eratliff75@gmail.com. Either they believe they can leave off the numbers and receive the messages anyway, or they often simply forget. That or the E. Ratliffs of the world just view eratliff@gmail.com as some kind of shared resource. ]]> email mail ashley-madison gmail mistakes misdirected-email https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9a6c92e351be/ Groups.io Update 2015-03-20T13:56:45+00:00 http://wingedpig.com/2015/03/17/groups-io-update/ jm wiki email mailman mailing-lists mlm markdown mark-fletcher groups.io collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2bffe837afec/ Epsilon Interactive breach the Fukushima of the Email Industry (CAUCE) 2015-03-10T12:15:14+00:00 http://www.cauce.org/2011/04/epsilon-interactive-breach-the-fukushima-of-the-email-industry.html jmUpon gaining access to an ESP, the criminals then steal subscriber data (PII such as names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, and in one case, Vehicle Identification Numbers). They then use ESPs’ mailing facility to send spam; to monetize their illicit acquisition, the criminals have spammed ads for fake Adobe Acrobat and Skype software. On March 30, the Epsilon Interactive division of Alliance Data Marketing (ADS on NASDAQ) suffered a massive breach that upped the ante, substantially.  Email lists of at least eight financial institutions were stolen.  Thus far, puzzlingly, Epsilon has refused to release the names  of compromised clients. [...] The obvious issue at hand is the ability of the thieves to now undertake targeted spear-phishing problem as critically serious as it could possibly be. ]]> cauce epsilon-interactive esp email pii data-protection spear-phishing phishing identity-theft security ads https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3343947e41a3/ The VATMOSS debacle: does the "manual email" loophole work? 2014-12-22T22:17:04+00:00 https://storify.com/writersgreenhse/can-i-email-stuff-out-euvat jmAs the 1 January deadline gallops towards the EU, microbusinesses desperate to stay open without breaking the law try to find out, "Can I email stuff out instead?" Well... Yes. - No - It depends - and simultaneously yes AND no, according to Schrödinger’s VAT. So that's clear, then. ]]> vat vatmoss eu tax fiasco email microbusiness sme https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1b01cae6ccdb/ Scaling email transparency 2014-12-09T17:40:07+00:00 https://stripe.com/blog/scaling-email-transparency jm communication culture email management stripe cc transparency civil-inattention https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ec7214e73f1/ Introducing Groups.io 2014-09-23T22:39:29+00:00 http://wingedpig.com/2014/09/23/introducing-groups-io/ jmemail groups (the modern version of mailing lists) have stagnated over the past decade. Yahoo Groups and Google Groups both exude the dank air of benign neglect. Google Groups hasn’t been updated in years, and some of Yahoo’s recent changes have actually made Yahoo Groups worse! And yet, millions of people put up with this uncertainty and neglect, because email groups are still one of the best ways to communicate with groups of people. And I have a plan to make them even better. So today I’m launching Groups.io in beta, to bring email groups into the 21st Century. At launch, we have many features that those other services don’t have, including: Integration with other services, including: Github, Google Hangouts, Dropbox, Instagram, Facebook Pages, and the ability to import Feeds into your groups. Businesses and organizations can have their own private groups on their own subdomain. Better archive organization, using hashtags. Many more email delivery options. The ability to mute threads or hashtags. Fully searchable archives, including searching within attachments. One other feature that Groups.io has that Yahoo and Google don’t, is a business model that’s not based on showing ads to you. Public groups are completely free on Groups.io. Private groups and organizations are very reasonably priced. ]]> email groups communication discussion mailing-lists groups.io yahoo google google-groups yahoo-groups https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1afb25ef608e/ DIRECT MARKETING - A GENERAL GUIDE FOR DATA CONTROLLERS 2014-09-22T21:04:26+00:00 http://www.dataprotection.ie/docs/DIRECT-MARKETING-A-GENERAL-GUIDE-FOR-DATA-CONTROLLERS/905.htm jmWhere you have obtained contact details in the context of the sale of a product or service, you may only use these details for direct marketing by electronic mail if the following conditions are met: the product or service you are marketing is of a kind similar to that which you sold to the customer at the time you obtained their contact details At the time you collected the details, you gave the customer the opportunity to object, in an easy manner and without charge, to their use for marketing purposes Each time you send a marketing message, you give the customer the right to object to receipt of further messages The sale of the product or service occurred not more than twelve months prior to the sending of the electronic marketing communication or, where applicable, the contact details were used for the sending of an electronic marketing communication in that twelve month period. ]]> email spam regulations ireland law dpc marketing direct-marketing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7d617f927538/ SI336 - current Irish anti-spam law 2014-09-08T10:27:46+00:00 http://dataprotection.ie/documents/legal/SI336of2011.pdf jm spam anti-spam law ireland eu ec sms email si336 privacy regulation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c2c1c676b86d/ Irish Water Data Protection Notice: A review… 2014-09-08T10:25:36+00:00 http://obriend.info/2014/09/06/irish-water-data-protection-notice-a-review/ jm irish-water law dpc data-protection privacy spam opt-in si336 sms email ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dbe8ae3ee488/ Google's new end-to-end key distribution proposal 2014-08-28T12:39:43+00:00 https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/wiki/KeyDistribution jm end-to-end encryption google security email crypto key-distribution https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d032ec6cda15/ Delivery Notifications for Simple Email Service 2014-06-27T14:23:08+00:00 http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ses-delivery-notifications/ jmToday we are enhancing SES with the addition of delivery notifications. You can now elect to receive an Amazon SNS notification each time SES successfully delivers a message to a recipient's email server. These notifications give you increased visibility into the mail delivery process. With today's release, you can now track deliveries, bounces, and complaints, all via notification to the SNS topic or topics of your choice. ]]> delivery email smtp ses aws sns notifications ops https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a37f35f56c0/ How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today 2014-04-01T14:11:40+00:00 http://time.com/43263/gmail-10th-anniversary/ jm history gmail email smtp mua paul-buchheit kevin-fox launches google web https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0a24c7b3ca4b/ RTE star Sharon Ni Bheolain stalked for six months - Independent.ie 2014-02-24T14:14:11+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/rte-star-sharon-ni-bheolain-stalked-for-six-months-30026874.html jm law ireland harassment internet twitter email abuse cyberstalking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c67cd063d3f/ "Hackers" unsubscribed a former Mayor from concerned citizen's emails 2014-02-18T11:16:53+00:00 http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/local-news/former-mayor-of-kildare-nolan-denies-rejecting-campaigner-e-mails-1-5691702 jmFormer Mayor of Kildare, Cllr. Michael Nolan, has denied a claim he asked a local campaigner to stop e-mailing him. Cllr. Michael Nolan from Newbridge said his site was hacked and wrong e-mails were sent out to a number of people, including Leixlip based campaigner, John Weigel. Mr. Weigel has been campaigning, along with others, about the danger of electromagnetic radiation to humans and the proximity of communications masts to homes and, in particular schools. He regularly updates local politicians on news items relating to the issue. Recently, he said that he had received an e-mail from Cllr. Nolan asking to be removed from Mr. Weigel’s e-mail list. The Leader asked Cllr. Nolan why he had done this. But the Fine Gael councillors said that “his e-mail account was hacked and on one particular day a number of mails a were sent from my account pertaining to be from me.” ]]> dog-ate-my-homework hackers funny kildare newbridge fine-gael michael-nolan email politics ireland excuses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4f38a09a4688/ Dark Mail Alliance 2013-10-31T09:46:10+00:00 http://darkmail.info/home.html jmTo bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the 'next-generation' of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the worlds first end-to-end encrypted 'Email 3.0' throughout the world's email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind. ]]> privacy surveillance email smtp silent-circle lavabit dark-mail open-source standards crypto https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a22b82c925c6/ Spamalot reigns: the spoils of Ireland’s EU kingship | The Irish Times - Thu, Jun 13, 2013 2013-06-13T13:44:25+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/spamalot-reigns-the-spoils-of-ireland-s-eu-kingship-1.1426389#.UbmEcGHAdss.twitter jmThe spam presidency. As European citizens are made the miserable targets of unimpeded “direct marketing”, that may be how Ireland’s stint in the EU presidency seat is recalled for years to come. Under the guiding hand of Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, the Council of the European Union has submitted proposals for amendments to a proposed new data protection regulation, all of which overwhelmingly favour business and big organisations, not citizens. The most obviously repugnant and surprising element in the amendments is a watering down of existing protections for EU citizens against the willy-nilly marketing Americans are forced to endure. In the US there are few meaningful restrictions on what businesses can do with people’s personal information when pitching products and services at them. In the EU, this has always been strictly controlled; information gathered for one purpose cannot be used by a business to sell whatever it wants – unless you have opted in to receive such solicitations. This means you are not constantly bombarded by emails and junk mail, nor do you get non-stop phone calls from telemarketers. Under the proposed amendments to the draft data protection regulation, direct marketing would become a legal form of data processing. In effect, this would legitimise spam email, junk print mail and marketing calls. This unexpected provision signals just how successful powerful corporate lobbyists have been in convincing ministers that business matters more than privacy or giving citizens reasonable control over their personal information. Far worse is contained in other amendments, which in effect turn the original draft of the regulation upside down. Fantastic article from Karlin Lillington in today's Times on the terrible amendments proposed for the EU's data protection law.]]> eu law prism data-protection privacy ireland ec marketing spam anti-spam email https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:11445f4c180f/ A Closer Look: Email-Based Malware Attacks 2012-06-21T13:00:26+00:00 http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/06/a-closer-look-recent-email-based-malware-attacks/ jm via:fanf fail malware filtering av smtp email viruses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e1513006509/ Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network 2012-05-20T23:12:33+00:00 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/ff_libya/all/1 jm massive-interception future state-control censorship privacy internet email totalitarianism libya amesys bull-sa gadhafi surveillance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3c2e8a5732d9/ Mailinator(tm) Blog: How Mailinator compresses email by 90% 2012-02-22T11:29:42+00:00 http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-mailinator-compresses-email-by-90.html jm mailinator lcs caching algorithms compression email https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24fe960d45ff/ Near Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Data [PDF] 2012-02-22T11:27:39+00:00 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs345a/slides/05-LSH.pdf jm slides algorithms email performance programming near-neighbour-search search https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5d1174b2c395/ EMAIL AND BACON 2010-10-10T21:18:24+00:00 http://verydemotivational.com/2010/05/17/demotivational-posters-email-and-bacon/ jm via:boxofmeat email bacon car funny lol demotivational posters https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57db4786e686/ More Best of the Email - The Daily WTF 2010-03-04T17:37:41+00:00 http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/More-Best-of-the-EmaiL.aspx jm email via:eoin funny daily-wtf bureaucracy hr health-and-safety omgwtfbbq https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c9e14ceee538/ DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail 2010-01-28T12:30:58+00:00 https://secure.grepular.com/DNS_Prefetch_Exposure_on_Thunderbird_and_Webmail jm privacy email dns mozilla thunderbird prefetching urls abuse security spam https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1902905231dd/ AOL sacks pretty much the entire US postmaster team 2010-01-22T22:25:32+00:00 http://www.annaliviaford.com/2010/01/postmaster-team-update.html jm aol anti-spam layoffs postmaster email smtp https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1cc5778c0b54/ Sup, OfflineIMAP and MSMTP 2009-11-25T00:01:25+00:00 http://www.robsearles.com/2009/08/30/ubuntu-jaunty-command-line-email-sup-offlineimap-and-msmtp/ jm sup email linux command-line howto jaunty ubuntu https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2d0ed9a2e340/