Dear all, The SMTP mail protocol was written by a gentleman by name Dave Crocker long long ago.
And thanks to him we have a spam problem. Thanks to him anyone can spoof as anyone else. E-mail address proxying is such a big problem that people no longer believe the From address. With all its defects e-mails still have a standing and importance far more than we can imagine. Today starting from a leather chappal shop in Parrys to a space research company in America, everyone uses e-mail and e-mail constitutes the lifeblood of any business. That being the case trusting open source tools for mails are a matter of big surprise. People scoff at open source as being a hobbyist activity without the seriousness and elan of pedigree and class. Be as it may, the truth is that jewellery showrooms and corporates alike do not care as long as they get cost effective stable solutions. Jewellery is important since I happened to deploy my first ever mail server product fully based on open source without a single line of code that is closed source today. It does not matter where I did that. Be it shipping or jewellery or academics, mails are key. That is a fact that everyone should know. Without mails nothing works today. Even courier companies and ticketing companies rely on mails as though they were their very essence of being. Anyway now the advantage of knowledge is often misunderstood and not adequately appreciated. Roundcubemail(http://www.roundcubemail.net) may be hard to configure and get working but once you achieve it you will never use the all too common squirrelmail web interface again. It supports drag and drop, HTML composing(bad for geeks) and address books and preview pane and what not. Outlook users will change their religion to roundcube once they see it. It is that fantastic. And it is 100% free and open source. :) This a just a case in point. I can go on and on on how knowledge helped me serve a very useful, critical and important need but suffice it to say that open source has everything you need and more. Just that you should invest your time and energy to study and benefit by it. For that you need the commitment of Tendulkar towards cricket. Don't be an Ajay Jadeja. Be a Tendulkar... And you can reap rich rewards if only you shed sweat, blood and tears. Are you ready? Start now. Why wait? ;) -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
