[ILUG] Best Email Server to Use

[Michael Watterson]

Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> wrote:
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>> for what it's worth, we in SpamAssassin prefer the Received: header a la
>> Y! Mail.  those headers preserve ordering nicely, indicating the entire
>> trail of transmission from start to end (in reverse order).  that's
>> great for our purposes.
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> That's fair enough.  I'll try to get an answer internally as to why we're
> not using it.  It might be something as simple as "the client IP address is
> not available to the backends" (obviously more than one server is involved
> when a message is being constructed), or there may be a design reason.  I'll
> look into this next week.
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> I don't think there is one in this case.
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> I didn't think so.  Michele; do you accept this?  Flouting an RFC is a far
> more serious matter than adopting a different practise to other providers,
> and I would like you to either substantiate or withdraw the accusation.
>
> Michele has a point regarding GMail's current status as a spammer conduit.
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>> It's being massively abused right now, since the CAPTCHA has been broken.
>> Several very large sites are now blocking GMail; I'll forward details
>> to you off-list.
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> We know about the CAPTCHA thing, obviously, and I know that there's a
> significant effort going into addressing that.  It's the whole "large
> target" effect.  Doing a CAPTCHA which is scalable, hard to crack and yet
> meets accessibility requirements is difficult, apparently.
>
> Colm
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Re: Google.
Why would I want to use a mail service where droids read all my mail?
Why would I want to use Apps that may be less private and less secure 
less private than MS's?

I use Google for search out of need. Otherwise why would I deal with 
what is really a very very closed doors advertising agency? The only 
ilug connection IMO is that Google is a heavy Linux user. But so are 
lots of other commercial entities. Don't get me started on Android either.

I'd agree, that for *public email*  I'd use a provider and only use my 
own mail server as a hidden convenience on my own LAN for multi-pop, 
pre-filtering, archiving and forwarding for a family or an office. Don't 
have to worry about relaying or other exploits. Behind firewall and no 
ports forwarded to it. To "the internet" it behaves like an email 
pop/smtp client application. I have a large list of endings that are 
executable on Windows/DOS. The home mail server eats them. If people 
really want need to send me binary, it's for linux etc without a 
forbidden ending so no problem or in a zip. Zips are checked manually to 
see if they have a lot of  space in internal file(s) name :-)

Remote image loading and remote HTML blocked on Thunderbird mail 
clients. Read/Reception ack turned off.


I have two domains of my own for email too (hosted services with 
something like sendmail, remote web admind via HTTPS). But I mostly use 
three other domains for the bulk of my email with ordinary pop accounts. 
I have hotmail,  gmail and yahoo mail I never use.

Dons coat and runs away....
... and I run MDaemon 2.7 on my LAN for multipop, webmail, SMTP, POP3, 
IMAP and forwarding :-) Since it was released.


-- 
Mike