On 10/27/2013 10:38 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-10-25 4:51 PM, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> wrote: >> Blackberry has done pretty much this same thing for years, and not >> too many people have been bent out of shape about it. Or maybe the >> different business model of BB convinced folks their email wasn't >> being mined. Mostly a moot point now... > > Are you sure about this? I especially don't think this is true for > outbound? At least, I don't recall seeing an option for this (SMTP) > in the ones I set up, but it was a long time ago, so maybe I'm wrong > and just never considered the implications... > > It seemed to be more in the nature of setting up getmail or > fetchmail, and it was for inbound only, and just to deliver the > message to the client.
(disclaimer - no BB users left here, so this is based on past behavior. They could have changed, but I doubt it.) Yes, BB would fetch all IMAP messages from the company server, then push them to the client. Outbound would originate from BB's SMTP servers, with a BB envelope address and your company From: header (and bypassing any company outbound policy in the process). Doesn't seem like a big difference in outcome -- some third party has access to all your mail. But they promise they won't misuse it. -- Noel Jones
