• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    13 hours ago

    The 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 fetch them instead.

    Filters are available (almost) everywhere.

    edit: I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.

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      15 hours ago

      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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        forwarding can fail

        how so?

        i just connect to POP and get everything in bulk

        That can also fail.

        forwarding changes the original headers

        if i forward spam my provider gets pissed

        Both these things are fixable with standard mailing software.

        PS: I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.

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      19 hours ago

      Please don’t just forward all you unencrypted email to the biggest data scanning company in the world

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        13 hours ago

        What the other commenter suggests is not better.

        I also don’t see why this forwarding-or-fetching is necessary at all. It’s easy to maintain several email addresses on any device.