[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Colm Buckley]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight <
michele at blacknight.ie> wrote:

>
> All the other webmail services  do it. Gmail wants to be different


As I said in my reply to Justin, there is *probably* an engineering reason
for this.  I will investigate.


> The knockon effect of them doing this is extremely negative. That Google
> ignore this and try to fudge whenever it's mentioned seems to be a given.


[citation needed]

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?
>>
>
> Not just my own


But not that of any RFC author, is that right?  Seriously.  You accused
GMail of flouting RFCs, and I want to know which ones.


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...
>>
>
> Wow!
>
> At least you didn't have the gall to say "responsible" or anything like
> that ...


What?

Do you seriously think that Google wants to be a source of spam?  We are OF
COURSE aware that our service is being abused, and we are OF COURSE working
on plugging the holes.  I think, however, that you have simply failed to
grasp the difficulties associated with operating at this scale; if we
introduce a stronger CAPTCHA, how do we ensure that it operates correctly in
all locales?  How do we address the accessibility issues?  You can't turn a
service this size on a dime; you have to seriously consider the impact on
*millions* of people, and work through all of the implications.

I stand by my assertion that GMail for your domain is a better solution than
almost anything else out there for the overwhelming majority of cases.
Especially when combined with the Postini mail frontier system.

Colm


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