[Chandler-dev] What email services/ servers should we be testing against?

[Brian Kirsch]

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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