On 07/01/2014 11:15 PM, Daniel Staal wrote:
You probably can. ;) But I'm sure Windstream didn't get you every piece of mail immediately after it was sent - just as soon as they could after they got it.
Yeah. I'm conservatively holding myself to higher standards than is perhaps warranted. But I think that those standards are along the lines of what my long-time customer thought they were getting from Windstream. And it Winstream had too many issues, I think I would have heard about it.
And their servers *did* become unavailable for short periods from time to time.
But once I'm satisfied that I've reached parity, the real fun starts. We were on POP3. Now we're on our own IMAP. And there is Dovecot full text search in our near future. It will be fun to be able to go beyond and show off a little. My client company's CEO does a lot of full text searching over his email history.
I'm not even saying I like greylisting - I'm just
saying you should work to set user expectations to reality,
When trust died on the Internet, telnet died, but somehow the unbelievably naive email system did not. It was never prepared for spammer abuse. And we're still accommodating to 7 bit systems for crying out loud. If it were material I suppose it would make a fine antique in someone's collection. Right along side the PDP-11.
which is
that email sometimes takes time to get delivered and (rarely) gets lost. If something is absolutely time-critical, they should treat email as a backup,
I think that It's largely a matter of *peoples* expectations and understanding, If a mail gets missed, folks can understand an occasional "I never got your email, we'll send someone over right away".
What I object to is the idea of regular and unpredictable delays as introduced by greylisting. And it's just plain ugly from an aesthetic standpoint. But then so are our current email protocols. But I do think that can be fixed.
Never did like texting. And that's the alternative. -Steve
