[ale] [OT]Non-ISP Email services

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at naunetcorp.com>wrote:

> On 04/02/2013 11:33 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> > Buy a domain name at 1and1.com and pay for their email only service.
> > It's about $ 15 / year if I recall.  Then, you mail can come to your
> > own domain.  It's a good idea (in my opinion) to pay something for
> > such service.  In terms of customer service and maintenance, you get
> > what you pay for.  $ 1.25 / month doesn't get you much in that
> > regard, but with millions of customers, they have more funds to
> > manage the data center and provide some help to needy customers.  Try
> > to get some help from gmail for a problem.  Also, having your own
> > domain name lends more credibility, which may be useful in some
> > cases.  The domain name costs about $ 8 / year.
>
> Everyone, just remember:
>
>  * If your mail hosting is outsourced, the Government can read it
>    without a warrant after 180 days.
>

unless it's encrypted. In that case you are already on several watch lists.

>
>  * If your email hosting is in-house, on your own equipment, the
>    government must always obtain a warrant to read messages stored on
>    the system.
>

Unless they can plant a bug on the wire at your provider.

>
> If you want to ensure that your messages cannot be read without a
> warrant and therefore mandatory service upon yourself or your business,
> you should ensure that (a) you use an email service that purges all
> messages no later than 180 days after receipt, or (b) host the mail
> yourself, in-house.
>

and never email anything that your lawyer would see $$ about!

>
>         --- Mike
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