One thing I forgot to mention is we don't currently have an exchange
server to test against.
I know that other parts of KEI do use exchange or did at one point.
That would be an important addition to our coverage.
Perhaps Jared and the team can provide us with a test account.
-Brian
On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Brian Kirsch wrote:
Sounds good Dan. I am not familiar with a couple of the services
listed but as long as they provide free IMAP and POP accounts that
conform to the RFC's then the more servers to test against the better.
FYI: POP support in Yahoo is a paid service for which we already
have an account. See the
QA accounts page for the info.
Certainly setting up a number of servers to test against in house
would be ideal but understandably that is a time consuming task.
-Brian
On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Dan Steinicke wrote:
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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