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   Message 28,858 of 30,566   
   Dan Purgert to Mike Easter   
   Re: Email hostted failure   
   11 Aug 25 19:06:04   
   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   On 2025-08-11, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >> That'll potentially work for sending mail to someone from the new   
   >> account, but it's not going to fix the remote party's configurations for   
   >> automated mailings, etc.   
   >>   
   >> And relies on him being able to login (which seems to be the underlying   
   >> problem).   
   >   
   > My suggestion was a guess about how to transfer his contacts from the   
   > provider's webmail to something else once his login problem was solved.   
      
   Right -- but I read the problem the other way around -- "How to get all   
   my providers automated email systems changed to not this address without   
   losing my will to live?"   
      
   Which, well, is why random providers of stuff like that all get gmail :)   
      
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