[Search-l] "open source alternative to Gmail"

[Seth Finkelstein]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 12:06:31PM -0700, Nathan Braun wrote:
> That's what I'm sort of wondering, if it is even a possibility - or

	My off-the-cuff, Eeyorish, opinion: You don't want to run an
email hosting service. You really don't. You might want to warm up by
trying something easier, like drug-smuggling in Columbia, or being a
bicycle messenger in Iraq.

	An email hosting hosting service is in a state of perpetual
siege by spammers. To the point where it sometimes seems like the
Internet has achieved sentience - and hates you. Entire regions of the
Earth will have no contact with your server other than an unending
attempt to reduce all mailboxes to collections of pump-and-dump frauds
and "419" scams.

	I know you're not going to believe me. I know it's so easy to
think it's not such a big stumbling block. But you should talk to some
of the people who run commercial ISP's and deal with this, before
proceeding. It might be enlightening as to the extent of the problem.

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