Re: email privacy

Vojtěch Zeisek <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:01:25 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Organization	openSUSE GNU/Linux
Message-ID	<24976263.mqayhW9y4Q@tilia>
Dne úterý 10. dubna 2018 4:54:06 CEST, E. Hakan Duran napsal(a):
> Dear all,
> I am trying to improve my email privacy and thought that this would be a
> great platform to ask questions to a bunch of smart people. I would love to
> be able to do all this using Kontact/Kmail, so it is not totally off-topic
> in my opinion.
> The idea is to delete emails from the server upon download, just like the
> default case for POP3, to decrease their exposure to surveillance by
> interested parties. However, this has the disadvantage of not being able to
> access those emails from multiple clients, like smart phone, tablet, etc.
> One solution I thought as a workaround for this disadvantage was to set up
> a mail server at home LAN, which would keep the (presumably) only copy of
> these emails and be accessable by multiple clients. Does anybody here have
> sucha a set up? Do you think it would work? Does anybody have a more
> practical/easier solution? I am not too excited about setting up and
> maintaining a home email server with my level of expertise. I believe it is
> not within the limits of ISP contract to run an email server at home
> either, which may potentially  get one in trouble. Additionally, this home
> email server may get blacklisted, if not set up or maintained correctly, as
> far as I can tell.Would SMTP relay help prevent it? If SMTP relay is used,
> will there be a copy of sent emails in the original account's Sent folder?
> Another question is how would this home email server download and delete the
> copy on the original email account? Would this task require automatic email
> forwarding by the original account instead? Or would it require another
> piece of middle man software?
> I am sorry for my long list of questions. I would be very interested in
> hearing your thoughts, solutions, recommendations, as well as pointers for
> me to read.

Hi,
for having e-mail server at home You need public IP address or some VPN or 
something to get to Your local network.
Running e-mail server is not easy. There are many things You can do wrong. Not 
only security, also settings and following standards.
In KMail, if You right click to folder, You can set expiration of the folder - 
mails older than given threshold can be deleted or moved to some other (local) 
folder. This is probably the function You are looking for.
And the most important, have You red license conditions of GMail? Do You know 
what You agree with while using GMail? I see it completely senseless to talk 
about e-mail privacy when using something with such a disgusting conditions as 
GMail.
V.

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