On 2017-02-09 20:25:25 (-0000), John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote:
> >I never understand why users won't just collect mail from the 'proper'
> >mail server rather than having to forward it all to gmail/hotmail. A
> >large portion of our support issues are to do with this forwarding.
>
> Bad reason: setting up POP collection takes two minutes, while adding a
> forward only takes 15 seconds.
Worst reason: email providers don't want to bother setting up POP and
authentication, further complicated by setting up encryption, etc etc.
SMTP is one line in a configuration file.
...until recently, I was guilty of this. I doubt I was alone!
> Better reason: POP polling can add noticable delays to your mail, and
> most places don't let you set the polling schedule.
I've got a couple of users like this. They will not accept that email
is not supposed to be real-time. Sigh. I have them on a sacrificial IP
and run their mail through SpamAssassin, dropping anything more spammy
than $bignum. I'm actively trying to push them to just point their MX
records at {google,microsoft,foo}.
Philip
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