Elena ``of Valhalla''

Elena ``of Valhalla'' at

Moving away from google services, step N out of M

For years, I've used a gmail account to subscribe to public mailing lists because it was convenient, it had excellent spam filtering and since the lists were already available on google-indexed public archive I felt that there was no real privacy issue.
I already have a local copy of every message in the account, in case I lose access to it for some random reason, and my real contacts already know and use my other email address(es), so I'm not really worried about continuing to use gmail for this kind of traffic.

When I started contributing to Debian I also used that email address, because I was already subscribed to a few mailing lists under it, and it was going to end up being used on the BTS and other spam-attracting public places like that, but I was less happy with the choice.

Lately, however, gmail's spam filters have started to behave oddly, with lots of false positives including a number of messages from @debian.org addresses, and this basically removes the main reason why I was using gmail in the first place, so I'm seriously considering dropping it also for publicly indicized communications.

My first step, right before leaving for Barcelona was to create a couple other email addresses, one for mailing lists and the other for debian-related work, and add them to my gpg/OpenPGP key, so that any new signature on them from the conf would also include the new UIDs.

If you've received a badly signed message (thanks heirloom mailix for mangling stuff :) ) followed by an hopefully correctly signed one where I was asking you to sign new UIDs, and you were wondering, this is the reason.

Now that the new UIDs have been signed by a few DDs I'm going to start using the new address in Debian: I believe I have changed it everywhere I needed to, except for the maintainer/uploader field for my packages, where it will change on their next uploads.

As for mailing lists, I still don't know how to proceed: I could proceed in a systematic way, but I'm lazy and I will probably just change a few main subscriptions, use the new address for new subscriptions and then migrate the rest a few at a time, unless some other event happens and I'll have to hurriedly migrate everything or risk losing important messages. Even in the latter case, I don't need any information that is only stored on google's servers, so I won't will panic just a bit :)

Now, where did I put that documentation about xmpp servers?

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