Talk:Free Geek Email

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Cool! -- MW

you have a quota

too bad you can't find out how close you are to overrunning it!

According to Martin, there is no quota on the email system. Do you have contrary information? -- MW

For information on quota, see Martin's message to the ASS list on 11/08/2005, with subject "Re: [freegeek-ass] Mail quota warning".

As you have to be on the ass list to see Martin's message, I'll summarize: 50MB quota is in force, we have some space to give out extra space at the moment, long term we want to replace that server anyway.

sending mail

you may send mail through mail.freegeek.org as a SMTP server if you do so within a few hours of signing in to check your mail.

Does not work reliably and not at all for relaying to a non-freegeek address. -- MW

how to change your password

ask an ASS in person.

your address plus

mail addressed to "whoyouis+stuff@freegeek.org" will get delivered just the same as mail to "whoyouis@freegeek.org". You might use this feature to give different addresses to different sign-up services.

spam filtering

if you create a mail folder called "Spam", stuff caught by our spam filtration system will end up in it. We provide no interface for customizing or tuning the spam filter.

other things we do to your mail

virus filter, etc. that stuff probably doesn't even make it in to the "Spam" folder. I don't know.

other limits on mail

is there a per-message size limit?

things we don't support yet

SMTP AUTH or SMTP over SSL.