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Sorry for the lousy work in structure / syntax etc, I was in a hurry. But I HOPE people get the point and realize how serious all this is.

Let's talk about Microsoft as serious mail provider: I self-host my mail server for <10 years. My server is in 0 blocklists. DKIM / DMARC / SPF implemented since ages. The company I work for, hosts their emails on 0365, I have been sending emails from one account to the other with no problem. Recently I got an email from an outlook.com account. I am in the contacts list of the sender. I tried to respond, my email was rejected. The email auto-response from MS contained links with "things you should do in order to make mails from your server acceptable by MS". I have everything done already since ages. Nothing missing. I googled on how to "appeal". I find a hell lot of people complaining in MS forums about it, no obvious solution.

Eventually I find a portal from MS to do exactly that: Appeal. I tried to use the portal but I got an error "event service error" - or something similar. Portal not working. I say "what the heck - I ll try later". I do try later, same outcome. Several times. For days. I google the error, I find several threads on redit since years complaining that the portal doesn't work giving this exact error. Since years. I keep trying nevertheless to respond to the email and go through the portal again for days. Nothing. I try the following: I signup for azure, it asks me for an email address, I say I have none and guides me to sign up to outlook. Outlook asks me for a backup email address, I provide my email address from the blocked server.

I then try to respond again to the original email that outlook has been rejecting - WORKS. Summary again: MS blocks email my mail server for not fulfilling requirements that it actually fulfills. MS portal to object, doesn't work since years. I create an outlook email and set self-hosted mail address as "backup" - my server gets unblocked.

Fun fact: I received "on-boarding" emails from MS Azure to my new MS Outlook account. MS Outlook classified them as "Junk".

Does this qualify as a "serious mail provider"?

--updated wording.

...which has the root of the Greek verb "κυβερνώ", which means "to govern", and is also the root of Kubernetes, which means "governor/captain" :)

I believe it is not about the means and the tooling. Systemic problems need to fix the system, not various outcomes of such problems. Assuming we are talking about democracies, I guess it is up to the people. If the people do not care, then fine. "Nothing to see here, move along". If this is the case, I disagree with "the people", but apparently that is just me... Or few of us.

Well, to the best of my knowledge, in most countries, the constitutions themselves suggest some actions to the people in the case somebody is not complying with the constitution. Did we see any of those suggested countermeasures taking place?

>There's no reason why this should not hold for spying and policing agencies

Isn't that what democracies call "constitution"? Something that protects citizens' rights again wrong-doing of powerful entities including legislators and the state itself?

WhatsApp has streams.

"Streams" for example. You cannot create a group of contacts that only receive messages from you, but they cannot send into the group. Replies of stream-members only come to the creator of the stream. Moreover, members of "streams" do not see other members. Basically is a BCC functionality for messages. I am a signal user since ages and constantly try to "convert" people. I miss this.

Is there any plan in making it part of pulse audio shipped with Ubuntu? Is there a straight-fw way to install it somehow and enable high-quality calls for BT Headsets? I am sure that this is a very common issue especially now-days, where people have lots of calls instead of meetings due to COVID-19...

The point is that the same headset works perfectly fine on windows/android/apple devices. The call quality there is just great. Only calls on Linux are with that issue.

A HUGE issue for me is the quality during calls with a BT headset (HSP/HFP) profiles. This is a killer in my workflow as I need to be in calls all the time, and for that I need to take them through a separate windows laptop. It is crazy, I hate it. Is there a way to improve call quality?

With basic auth you give something more than that. You give the ACTUAL credentials, because they are base64 encoded and not hashed. It is trivial to decode them and have the raw values.

To assume that a user trusts the subdomain because she trusts the domain, is something I find insane.

Yes, i guessed the same, but after i posted the original answer.