Message-ID:

The linuX Files -- The Source is Out There. -- Sent in by Craig S. Bell, goat@aracnet.com

computers / comp.mobile.android / Re: What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app accept (if not ProtonMail or GMX)?

What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app accept (if not ProtonMail or GMX)?

<uhfgmv$244iu$1@dont-email.me>

copy mid

https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=46373&group=comp.mobile.android#46373

copy link Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone comp.mobile.android alt.privacy

Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!news.niel.me!nntp.terraraq.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: walterjo...@invalid.nospam (Wally J)
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.privacy
Subject: What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app accept (if not ProtonMail or GMX)?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 01:09:52 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <uhfgmv$244iu$1@dont-email.me>
Injection-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:09:52 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6f6a7fdf108dfbc7c5c44c2aa7077df6";
logging-data="2232926"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/8Q46cWDud77A1mAGoA9yM"
Cancel-Lock: sha1:/fhNxEB34I3IvL0sbwv9skV5RDw=
X-Priority: 3
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal

by: Wally J - Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:09 UTC

What privacy based email address will the TextNow app accept?
<https://i.postimg.cc/brGDTqbm/textnow01.jpg> ProtonMail failed

1. I'm trying to set up a privacy-based Telegram account
2. Which, itself, will require a 2FA phone number
3. Some references say Telegram will accept a TextNow number
4. So I'm trying to set up that TextNow number sans a "real" phone number
5. I googled but I couldn't find which privacy-based mail TextNow accepts
6. TextNow does not seem to accept ProtonMail accounts (nor gmx accounts)

TextNow
An error has occurred.
We are having trouble accessing your account. Please try again.

If you were successful setting up a privacy-based TextNow account...
What privacy-based email address did you use for that TextNow account?
--
The whole point of Usenet is to find people who know more than you do.
And to contribute to the overall tribal knowledge value of the newsgroup.

Re: What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app accept (if not ProtonMail or GMX)?

<kq1tegFtcv7U4@mid.individual.net>

copy mid

https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=46376&group=comp.mobile.android#46376

copy link Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone comp.mobile.android alt.privacy

Path: i2pn2.org!i2pn.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: use...@arnowelzel.de (Arno Welzel)
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.privacy
Subject: Re: What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app
accept (if not ProtonMail or GMX)?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:49:04 +0200
Lines: 40
Message-ID: <kq1tegFtcv7U4@mid.individual.net>
References: <uhfgmv$244iu$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net hjBZO9xTc+ct4NXvm2Aqugrc3Eq7YiRdZZFqyNIA94dDpCt09Z
Cancel-Lock: sha1:w6Z7T9WuhuutWfqGsouh99eJDLk= sha256:M3ntv9VbedCylFEy2xG8eTMB/slycXNfQQMXVATcXSw=
Content-Language: de-DE
In-Reply-To: <uhfgmv$244iu$1@dont-email.me>

by: Arno Welzel - Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:49 UTC

Wally J, 2023-10-27 07:09:

> What privacy based email address will the TextNow app accept?
> <https://i.postimg.cc/brGDTqbm/textnow01.jpg> ProtonMail failed

Maybe because of the issues with Protonmail which are also reported by
mxtoolbox:

<https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=mx%3aprotonmail.com&run=toolpage>

- Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner
- Connection 5.874 seconds - Warning on Connection time
- Transaction 6.668 seconds - Warning on Transaction Time

So in general the server works but it names itself
"mailin015.protonmail.ch" even though the name for its IP address ist
"mail.protonmail.ch".

So if TextNow checks for this, it will not accept that since it may not
be sure if this is the correct server. Also long response times can be a
problem.

I would try a different service.

> 6. TextNow does not seem to accept ProtonMail accounts (nor gmx accounts)

Technically the MX servers of GMX work much better. But maybe GMX is
blacklisted at TextNow.

> What privacy-based email address did you use for that TextNow account?

Did you ask the creators of TextNow what services they accept? That
would be much more effective than asking users here and hoping that this
will still work.

--
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de

Subject	Author
What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app accept (if not	Wally J
Re: What privacy based email address will the TextNow smartphone app	Arno Welzel