This is another aide-memoire about changes in mail on Tarragon.

Some weeks back a change in one of the website contact pages was done and the captcha code was inadvertantly omitted. There followed a period of massive junk email directed at the owner of the site, on her google gmail account. Google decided to cut off tarragon’s ip address.

Although the problem is fixed, google has not relented. And this is the same kind of issue I have had in the past with microsoft. Although I have never been a source of spam, the big mail outfits are quick to ban the ip address of any small personal smtp server, and it takes a lot of effort to convince them to release the ban. I am tired of it. Despite my quixotic desire to run my own mail server as a symbolic cry against the erosion of personal services on the internet, I am tired of fighting, and I think it is time to stop.