On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:17 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] > Whoa. Four instances "I run my own SMTP and IMAP server" in about as > many paragraphs. You must feel quite strongly about that...
:-) Originally I was doing it to make sure I could sys admin Apache/Postfix/Dovecot (previously Courier IMAP) then I realized it was so straightforward there was little point in using a hosting agent. I had a system crash whilst away a couple of years ago and had to use GMail for a few days. It became apparent that whatever the terms of service say, Google were scanning all emails and using the data to create an advertising profile which was clearly then used to generate income for Google. Clearly this is the quid pro quo for getting free email, but I don't like the price. Worse I used to have one identity with Google Accounts, but having created a Google Mail account, Google switched the primary key to the Google Mail identifier and will not allow that to be changed. Facebook tried the same trick. This is really annoying and lowers the value of the brands for me. Result, I have my server hardware here and run all the services myself locally. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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