[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Colm Buckley]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight <
michele at blacknight.ie> wrote:

>
> From recollection there was a section about the sender source ie. where the
> mail came from . This includes other SMTP servers etc., right back to the
> actual person's desktop.


And when email is sent through GMail from an SMTP client, all of these
headers are preserved.  The question remains; what information should be
captured when the *webmail* interface is used - should we "pretend" that
it's SMTP and make up a "Received" header for the HTTP client?  That strikes
me as violating the principle of least surprise, as well as twisting the
purpose of the header - and I don't like the way Yahoo! does it per your
example below.  I still haven't seen a reference to an RFC which we're
"flouting" with GMail.

In my opinion, the purpose of the Received: headers is clearly to track the
mail's progress by SMTP; I really don't think it's good practise to
arbitrarily redefine it to include webmail receipt.  RFC2821 is a bit
unclear on the subject, referring only to "mail originating in other
environments", but I certainly don't see a strong recommendation in any of
the obvious RFCs to use it for webmail.

Of course, it may be that "GMail is flouting RFCs" is simply hyperbole, and
what you intended to say was "GMail's notion of best practise differs from
my own"; would that be correct?

If you were handling mail for thousands of users and those users were being
> spammed constantly from one source what would you do?


Move to an email hosting provider like GMail...

Colm

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