We recently uncovered a problem with Chandler email when using a
fastmail.fm email account. That made me wonder what a good mix of email
accounts to test against would look like. Doing a quick google I found
this list of top 10 free email accounts.
From this article: (which I have no idea how old or reliable the info is)
http://email.about.com/cs/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm?rd=1
These were listed as the top 10 free email services.
gmail
inbox.com
fastmail
yahoo
AIM
goowy
MSN
bigstring.com
my way mail
care2 e-mail
There is also the issue of testing against non-free email servers. From
this article
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html
(from O'Reilly recently)
these were listed as the most popular email server software
Sendmail
Postfix
Postini
MS exchange
MXLogic
qmail
Exim
Concentric
Cisco
Barracuda
Testing against this list would seem harder. Some of these would
probably get covered by testing against the list of free services above,
but it might be hard to know which. Others we might have to setup our
own servers to test against which probably won't happen with our current
level of QA and IT resources.
So after my twenty minutes of thought and research into this my choice
would be to try and set up test accounts on all of the free services
listed above and do at least some basic testing against them.
If other people more knowledgeable about email would care to comment on
this strategy I would be very grateful for your input.
Thanks
Dan
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