Dear all,
The SMTP mail protocol was written by a gentleman by name Dave Crocker
long long ago.
And thanks to him we have a spam problem. Thanks to him anyone can
spoof as anyone else.
E-mail address proxying is such a big problem that people no longer
believe the From address.
With all its defects e-mails still have a standing and importance far
more than we can imagine.
Today starting from a leather chappal shop in Parrys to a space
research company in America, everyone uses
e-mail and e-mail constitutes the lifeblood of any business.
That being the case trusting open source tools for mails are a matter
of big surprise.
People scoff at open source as being a hobbyist activity without the
seriousness and elan of pedigree
and class.
Be as it may, the truth is that jewellery showrooms and corporates
alike do not care as long as they get cost effective
stable solutions.
Jewellery is important since I happened to deploy my first ever mail
server product fully based on open source without a single
line of code that is closed source today.
It does not matter where I did that. Be it shipping or jewellery or
academics, mails are key.
That is a fact that everyone should know.
Without mails nothing works today. Even courier companies and
ticketing companies rely on mails as though they were
their very essence of being.
Anyway now the advantage of knowledge is often misunderstood and not
adequately appreciated.
Roundcubemail(http://www.roundcubemail.net) may be hard to configure
and get working but once you achieve it you will never use the
all too common squirrelmail web interface again.
It supports drag and drop, HTML composing(bad for geeks) and address
books and preview pane and what not.
Outlook users will change their religion to roundcube once they see
it. It is that fantastic.
And it is 100% free and open source. :)
This a just a case in point.
I can go on and on on how knowledge helped me serve a very useful,
critical and important need but suffice it to say that
open source has everything you need and more.
Just that you should invest your time and energy to study and benefit by it.
For that you need the commitment of Tendulkar towards cricket.
Don't be an Ajay Jadeja. Be a Tendulkar...
And you can reap rich rewards if only you shed sweat, blood and tears.
Are you ready? Start now. Why wait? ;)
-Girish
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Gayatri Hitech
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