Just be aware that dropbox recently changed its terms of service in a way that people are concerned about with regards to copyright issues. It's a loose phrasing, they request rights to your materials "as deemed necessary for the service" which was regarded as boilerplate for "so that we can present your content" but which seems broader than they needed for that purpose.

Between that and the privacy lapse (which I still never heard about from dropbox itself, only from third party sources) I am leaving them, myself.

I think it's still possible to use them effectively, and I found the service very convenient when I used it. But since the items I am storing there are not only subject to my copyright, but deeply sensitive (images of children, etc.) I am choosing not to. If you do, I suggest encrypting your data inside of dropbox. It is slightly riskier in terms of corruption, i.e. you'll have to do user management, but much safer since your data is exposed to dropbox staff all the time, and may be to the public if they goof again. [link]

eta: Okay, looks like I'm a day behind and after they clarified and clarified the clarification, they actually modified the terms again. [link]

So, basically, we can ignore your post? ;)

Seriously, it seems like a good idea to encrypt sensitive materials stored on any cloud, regardless of its terms of service.

Yeah, completely! Give Jon extra space! Encrypt your data!

Jon,

I got something that might make your day.

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You can access your online files, from several services, with one link. I have two dropbox accts (!!) and google docs, and box.net connected.

That looks cool, but it's not relevant to my immediate need, which is to transfer a single multi-gigabyte file. Thanks, though.

This might sound like a weirdly specific request, and with the prevalence of gmail, I don't even know if anyone can help--I'm looking for an email client (yeah, I said client) that deletes spam from the server.

Back in the day when I ran old Eudora, I was set. The spam filter was pretty good, and it would delete anything deemed spam off the server so I could actually use mail clients from my phone and webmail clients directly off the hosted accounts and not have to sift through hundreds of spam messages a day.

Spam didn't used to be so bad, but since a couple of the recent database breaches I've seen an insane uptick (Genie bra and Aluma wallet, I don't care how good you are, I will just never buy you), and the server side stuff my vendor provides seems to only work to randomly bounce back my sister's email and not work on actual spam.

tl/dr: free email client w/ spam filter that DELETES from server y/y?

Or, alternatively, what happens in Thunderbird when you set the Junk Mail setting to Automatically Delete Junk Mail Older Than 0 Days? Is there a setting that makes it immediate?

Could you set up a gmail account and redirect mail to it? or use "google apps for your domain" and change the mailbox whatchamacallit addresses to use google's server instead of yours?

Also, I know you probably don't want to switch hosts, but many provide server side spam filtering.

Postini works very well.

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Thanks, but I don't have the leeway to install anything on the server, so Postini is out. I was also hoping for free.

I have gmail setup to do spam filtering for one set of addresses, but it's not truly transparent for the email address. I'm not sure how I'd set it up to be so. Is there a way to do that?

And, yeah, I might look into a new host. But mine says it has spam tools. They just don't work. There's no way to tell that from the outside. Does anyone here have a host rec where they know they have good server-side spam filtering, including the ability to check email that has been bounced, and to whitelist?

eta: I think I can safely say that 0 days on Thunderbird doesn't mean right away. Mailbox is still full of junk.

You don't have to install anything on your host. You just have to be able to direct the mx records for your domain to postini's servers.