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Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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post #4

I'm actually not able to change my email settings currently. It forced my real email to "not public" mode and my facebook email to "public" and the buttons are unresponsive. I also can't "remove this from my timeline" either. Update: A few hard refreshes later, the buttons started to work.

Same happened to me. I think their email settings servers/subsystem is just getting hammered right now as more and more news articles are being written about this.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#42
post #28

Yay... I'm always looking for more reasons to NOT use Facebook for any communication whatsoever. Thank you, Facebook!

Doesn't seem like you're looking too hard -- you know, still having a facebook account and all.

If you hate it that much, delete the account :P

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#43
post #6

FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com

Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?

Nope, don't have timeline yet. I refuse, lol.

On a side note, I didn't do anything to keep the old display style, I just didn't manually switch myself to the new timeline, and they never auto adopted me over.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#45
post #30

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages. They're not even pretend…

I had my test message arrive straight away... Into their "Other" folder which doesn't generate notifications and nobody ever checks manually.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#47
post #6

FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com

Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?

I don't have it (not do I want it)

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#48
post #30

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages. They're not even pretend…

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Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

#49
post #6

FWIW: I don't have timeline, and it changed mine to @facebook.com

Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?

Echoing the above, I don't have timeline yet either. Does it have something to do with the age of the account, I wonder? I've been on FB since sometime in 2006.

Re: Facebook forces all users over to Facebook.com e-mail addresses

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post #48
post #30

Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that. I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with. Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages. They're not even pretend…

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I'm pretty sure a html 3.5 subset is what's rendered by mail clients. At least, gmail uses font to change fonts, and span to change color. they were both ignored.

this was the raw string gmail generated: abc def ghi jkl mno pqr stu vwx

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