my reasoning is that forwarding can fail, while if i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk, i don’t have problems
also: forwarding changes the original headers, and if i forward spam my provider gets pissed
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 days agoThe normal process would be to tell these other accounts to send emails to your primary account. Why would you even authorize another software (or mail provider) to do that.
Filters are available (almost) everywhere.
my reasoning is that forwarding can fail, while if i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk, i don’t have problems
also: forwarding changes the original headers, and if i forward spam my provider gets pissed
forwarding can fail
how so?
i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk
That can also fail.
forwarding changes the original headers
Fixable
if i forward spam my provider gets pissed
Don’t do that then.
amzd@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Please don’t just forward all you unencrypted email to the biggest data scanning company in the world
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 days ago
Well I wouldn’t do that either, but what the other commenter suggests is not better.