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#+KEYWORDS: freedombox, debian, beaglebone, hubzilla, email, web server, home server, internet, censorship, surveillance, social network, irc, jabber
#+DESCRIPTION: Turn the Beaglebone Black into a personal communications server
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* Why does my email keep getting rejected as spam by Gmail/etc?
Welcome to the world of email. Email is really the archetypal decentralized service, developed during the early days of the internet. In principle anyone can run an email server, and that's exactly what you're doing with Freedombone. Email is very useful, but it has a big problem, and that's that the protocols are totally insecure. That made it easy for spammers to do their thing, and in response highly elaborate spam filtering and blocking systems were developed. Chances are that your emails are being blocked in this way. Sometimes the blocking is so indisciminate that entire countries are excluded. What can you do about it? Unless you control the block list at the receiving end probably you can't do anything. There is zero accountability for such blocking, and you can't just contact someone and say "hey, I'm not a spammer". This system works well for the big internet companies because it effectively centralises email to a few well-known brand names and keeps any independent servers out.
So the situation with email presently is pretty bad, and there's a clear selection pressure against decentralization and towards only a few companies controlling all email services. Longer term the solution is to have more secure protocols which make spamming hard or expensive. Bitmessage is one such system. As an immediate practical workaround you could try buying a domain name and then linking it to your dynamic DNS account (freeDNS, etc) in the hope that the blocking is against dynamic DNS domain names, but there is no guarantee that will work and often blocking may be based upon IP address ranges about which there is little you can do.
So the situation with email presently is pretty bad, and there's a clear selection pressure against decentralization and towards only a few companies controlling all email services. Longer term the solution is to have more secure protocols which make spamming hard or expensive. Bitmessage is one such system. As an immediate practical workaround you could try buying a domain name and then linking it to your dynamic DNS account (freeDNS, etc) in the hope that the blocking is against dynamic DNS domain names, but there is no guarantee that will work and often blocking may be based upon IP address ranges about which there is little you can do.[fn:1]
[fn:1] Picture by [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/chanceprojects/16428389357/in/photolist-r2HMNn-fjSsGA-AC97hw-o8VN4t-o9E3R2-7Jukfe-yFYFcj-7imfPW-7AxaHC-9paZ9X-4Ut5PG-9XEDKe-9XHvyQ-8VEWGu-8W1azK-7EGNmd-fGHxic-9GkDTP-zLBfiV-fGHurR-qRMYzp-bqHnh2-e2yu7B-9gkk24-2z2s35-2yX4m2-r6VEkh-91g7v9-9ptxJn-fHWton-rymKbZ-9tGirx-fGHuV2-5TfydJ-9oNAuY-od51v3-51QxYW-buf1br-fGHwUV-9EBUqv-rtyL6v-7rq8Qt-5QTEFc-7SGnU2-8sD9kL-7SGnVt-mnrvP-a3gCpa-qwW37Z-fmw7Bt][Neil Cummings]], CC BY-SA 2.0

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So the situation with email presently is pretty bad, and there's a clear selection pressure against decentralization and towards only a few companies controlling all email services. Longer term the solution is to have more secure protocols which make spamming hard or expensive. Bitmessage is one such system. As an immediate practical workaround you could try buying a domain name and then linking it to your dynamic DNS account (freeDNS, etc) in the hope that the blocking is against dynamic DNS domain names, but there is no guarantee that will work and often blocking may be based upon IP address ranges about which there is little you can do.
So the situation with email presently is pretty bad, and there's a clear selection pressure against decentralization and towards only a few companies controlling all email services. Longer term the solution is to have more secure protocols which make spamming hard or expensive. Bitmessage is one such system. As an immediate practical workaround you could try buying a domain name and then linking it to your dynamic DNS account (freeDNS, etc) in the hope that the blocking is against dynamic DNS domain names, but there is no guarantee that will work and often blocking may be based upon IP address ranges about which there is little you can do.<sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup>
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Picture by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chanceprojects/16428389357/in/photolist-r2HMNn-fjSsGA-AC97hw-o8VN4t-o9E3R2-7Jukfe-yFYFcj-7imfPW-7AxaHC-9paZ9X-4Ut5PG-9XEDKe-9XHvyQ-8VEWGu-8W1azK-7EGNmd-fGHxic-9GkDTP-zLBfiV-fGHurR-qRMYzp-bqHnh2-e2yu7B-9gkk24-2z2s35-2yX4m2-r6VEkh-91g7v9-9ptxJn-fHWton-rymKbZ-9tGirx-fGHuV2-5TfydJ-9oNAuY-od51v3-51QxYW-buf1br-fGHwUV-9EBUqv-rtyL6v-7rq8Qt-5QTEFc-7SGnU2-8sD9kL-7SGnVt-mnrvP-a3gCpa-qwW37Z-fmw7Bt">Neil Cummings</a>, CC BY-SA 2.0
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