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Another customer for lavabit! Looks pretty good to me.
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- gutterslob
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hhh wrote:
Google doesn't require you to give them your phone number, do they? I've been asked to give it as a security measure but have just cancelled that screen.
Of course, they have it now that I have an Android phone and wanted to get notifications via my phone of new emails.
That's the thing. As long if you are signed into your Google account on your Android device, they have your number either way. You still can separate different services (say you use one for email and talk and you used opera mobile for browsing without being signed into Google for searches), but now, or as of March 1st 2012, it'll get a lot more cumbersome, especially on Android devices. Sure you can manually log out of Google on your browser while remaining logged into gmail or gtalk, but we can't be sure since Android apps are all capable of "talking" (layman's term) to each other to some extent (sandboxing isn't exactly the same as jailing).
Even people who've examined the Android source code don't have a definitive answer to this. Someone I know made sure he'd signed out of Google when searching for a hotel room, and the same day he got videos on front page the Youtube app showing ads for the hotels he researched. Coincidence? .... and this was before Google's recent privacy policy announcement, btw. Who knows how far it'll go after 01/03/2012. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but there's a lot of potential for it to become a bad thing.
Regardless of the advertising, it's the whole social aspect of it (G+) combined with the sync feature that has the potential to cause the most voyeurism. Someone somewhere is gonna end up syncing more info about yourself than you'd like. A completely trustworthy real life acquaintance might end up sharing your phone number and home address with the web simply by having you in their contact list. Extreme worse case scenario, but not completely beyond the realms of possibility, me thinks.
koleoptero wrote:
I get those paranoid spells sometimes too, don't worry it'll pass.
Sure it will. After my ex finds out I was dating her sister and my mom finds out I used to DJ at a club in a red light district!! >_>
Just an example, btw. I've never done any of that.
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@Slobby:
Hm, saw this with the new policy today for the first time, it made me thinking. 
gutterslob wrote:
After my ex finds out I was dating her sister and my mom finds out I used to DJ at a club in a red light district!! >_>
Just an example, btw. I've never done any of that.
But I can imagine you did that. 
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lavabit has yet another customer. thanks for recommending this.
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I was also looking for a new email service and after a bit of research signed up for Lavabit last week. Just thought I'd see if anyone on here was using it and it looks like it gets the #! community thumbs-up!
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I am. So far, so good.
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- ivanovnegro
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^ I would say that is much. On Gmail I recieved three in a whole year.
I signed up at Lavabit to try it out, the webmail interface is very minimal but everything is working as should. No nonsense things.
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Thanks to you, lavabit has a new user!
Thanks!
(And I'm going to make a new account on zoho as well xD)
- cJones
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As many others have said, Lavabit now has yet another user...I will stick with gmail as main email for sure though
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Should we be concerned that lavabit is hosted on g0daddy?
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- pvsage
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^ 
while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );
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^^ bummer...I don't know much about godaddy but I absolutely hate their commercials and thats enough for me haha
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@ gutter -
If you haven't found one check out: lavabit.com.
Just don't forget your password, because they do NOT keep records of it.
Hope that helps.
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- mynis01
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el_koraco wrote:
Signed up, configuring it with mutt is easy peasy. I might just switch over from gmail for personal use, as the amount of spam I'm getting on gmail is untolerable.
I second that. Mutt+lavabit is the way to go! So much less of a pain than alpine in my experience.
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^If the world were mine, I'd make everyone use mutt, just like I'd make a sub 8:30min Nurburgring lap a requirement for getting a driver's license. I have a theory about slow drivers slowing down economies, but we'll leave that for another time.
@sector
In case you didn't notice: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/183363/#p183363
Also mentioned my concerns about GoDaddy in that post. Other than that, I've had a pleasant ride with Lavabit so far. Their support is pretty good. Emailed them once with some encryption queries, and they gladly provided detailed "white paper" type documents. Also had this issue with slow loading once, which they settled within a few hours. Currently using one paid and one free account.
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^hm, I've been worried about Gmail as well recently...maybe I'll try this Lavabit! Now I just have to get a new calendar...and feed aggregator...and everything.... 
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gutterslob wrote:
@sector
In case you didn't notice: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/183363/#p183363
Sorry, I missed it, my head has been concentrating on RL a lot lately. Also missed all the other messages that recommended lavabit. I was in a rush when I saw the thread title in 'Active topics'. Wife was waiting for me to go out. We have been lavabit users for about 4 years now. In there time I have noticed two things:
1. server went down for maintenance a couple of times, never lasted more than 24 hours that I remember.
2. Twice, lavabit 'stopped' new users from signing up - spammers started using their servers for mass mailing spam. This did NOT affect any user who was already signed up. They cleaned it up and things continued as per normal.
I didn't realize about GoDaddy, I was signed up long before that happened, but it makes sense when put together with #2 above.
One other note: I don't think I have received a single spam through lavabit since I have started using them.
I'd recommend lavabit above all the others, I have gmx, mail.com, zoho and a few other as I went looking, like I said, about 4 years ago. I still use a few of the others for places that "require an email" if I'm not sure of their services and or want to stay.
Think I'm suffering burnout, should turn the computer off for a week or so!
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Do lavabit emails take forever to show up in your email client as well, or is it just me? I'm using Sylpheed and have it set to check for new messages every five minutes. Or I can just hit Check All and it will check my accounts right then. For gmail, the new messages show up pretty much instantly when I do a check. But for Lavabit, I don't know, it takes a good twenty minutes or even longer for the email to show up. I mean, for the most part the emails show up somewhat quickly even i check Lavabit through my browser, but it takes ages for the message to show up in a client...
Is this happening for others? If so, what other services that have been messaged in this thread have you guys had success with their messages showing up instantly in a client?
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^ Hello h8, long time no see
Same here, and I always thought it is because I'm in the PRC. I'm still using hotmail, googlemail and a Chinese provider (QQmail)
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Hey mc. I'm still around here and there.
Ok, well that's good I guess. Now I know it's not just me that's experiencing this problem. And that's too bad because I really like this service. But I gotta have something that works well with clients.
It's weird though because back on page 1 Gutter mentioned that Lavabit is working fine with his client(I think I read somewhere he's using a CLI-based client though).
Well, maybe I'll give Zoho a shot. I've been using DuckDuckGo as a search engine and they're affiliated with Zoho, so hopefully their email service is as good as DDG's search is and plays nice with my client. I'll report back on it after I've spent some time with it.
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You're still using sylpheed?
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Yeah, still using it. I tried the terminal based clients(a bunch of them, including Mutt) but they seemed overly complicated, plus I didn't like how they displayed each mailbox. I think I remember a couple them displaying all mailboxes as a whole, and then others displaying in a different manner that I didn't dig.
Anyways, I just tried playing around with my lavabit account in Sylpheed. I changed it from Imap to Pop, and the account works perfectly in Pop. Except for a couple quirks in Sylpheed. For some reason the client doesn't create a new tree entry for the account in its side pane. All my imap accounts show up separately in the side pane. But when it's pop it shows up in the default 'Mailbox' entry in the side pane instead of as *****@lavabit.com(like my gmail mailboxes do). And...when the client searches for new messages on a pop account a separate window pops open for some reason to show that it's receiving messages.
Pretty weird stuff. But if that's what I have to deal with to get Sylpheed to play nicely with lavabit then I guess that's what I gotta put up with. Not a huge deal though...