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[Discuss] Running a mail server, or not



On 06/28/2018 07:40 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:

> Actually, frequent updates to a mail program suggests to me:
>
> * It's buggy
> * It's missing essential features
> * It's being padded with fluff in order to say "new!" on the app store
> * or some combination of the above
>
> None of which are likely to endear me to that program.

Perhaps you're on to something.

Your third bullet hits a nerve with me. I see so many apps in the Google 
Play store that haven't been updated in more than a year, sometimes two 
or even longer, why leave it in there if the developer isn't doing 
anything with it... Would be nice to see a policy that if an app isn't 
updated in x number of years, contact the developer and inquire, if no 
response, remove the app.

I think Comcast is still using dovecot for its mail server, I'm seeing 
dov-this and dov-that in current mail headers and past headers actually 
referenced dovecot, but I'm still not comfortable with all of their 
connections from outside logged as standard SMTP.






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