On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Ian Eiloart wrote:
server or fetching by the other one. Gmail and many other servers offer
fetching: it is the solution with fewer problems.
Except that it requires you to Gmail to store your password for the remote
account in a recoverable format. For our users, that means violating our terms
and conditions of use. In fact, we'd not permit them to share our passwords
with Gmail even if Gmail were storing them securely. We have a common
authentication mechanism that means you can do more with the password than
just read email.
I've always wondered why more users don't just run their own mail domain,
and either buy Exchange for Windows or run an open source OS.
But then I remember how frustrated I get with all the supposedly professional
email providers that don't know diddly squat about RFCs and cause all
kinds of trouble.
And while a 3rd party service could give you your own domain for a
few bucks a month (for small volumes), it is hard to compete with "free"
(as in beer).
Is it even possible to have an open source (or even proprietary) email server
that even the most rfc ignorant can successfully configure out of the box?
Perhaps it would include a system where every installation would be
automatically tested (remotely using only SMTP related ports and by having the
new install send test emails to designated servers) by other accepted
installations, and only activated when it passes.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
"Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for
a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial.
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