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

[Brian Kirsch]

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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