having IMAP IDLE to everywhere... ugh, I guess. What's another million
persistent connections. I'd rather make forwarding more reliable. I've
wanted to add an inbound gateway setting to consumer accounts, similar to
what we have for GSuite customers, which would allow us to be smarter about
forwarding, but never had the resources to do it.
I'm hoping that ARC will allow us to do a better job of inferring
forwarding and handling it better, but even that's going to take a lot of
tuning and rolling out.
Brandon
Brandon
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Philip Paeps <phi...@trouble.is> wrote:
> 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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> Senior Reality Engineer
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