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

[Dan Steinicke]

Good idea I'll open a ticket with IT and see if something like this is 
possible.
-Dan

Brian Kirsch wrote:
> 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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