Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

[Russel Winder]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:17 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
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> Whoa. Four instances "I run my own SMTP and IMAP server" in about as 
> many paragraphs. You must feel quite strongly about that...

:-)

Originally I was doing it to make sure I could sys admin
Apache/Postfix/Dovecot (previously Courier IMAP) then I realized it was
so straightforward there was little point in using a hosting agent.  I
had a system crash whilst away a couple of years ago and had to use
GMail for a few days. It became apparent that whatever the terms of
service say, Google were scanning all emails and using the data to
create an advertising profile which was clearly then used to generate
income for Google. Clearly this is the quid pro quo for getting free
email, but I don't like the price. Worse I used to have one identity
with Google Accounts, but having created a Google Mail account, Google
switched the primary key to the Google Mail identifier and will not
allow that to be changed.  Facebook tried the same trick. This is really
annoying and lowers the value of the brands for me. Result, I have my
server hardware here and run all the services myself locally.

-- 
Russel.
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