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Re: Mailpush automatic notification



Hi,

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Itamar S.-T. wrote:

> My god - go to http://www.mailpush.com.  In order for the service to work, you
> have to give them the username and password for your mail account.

I guess you have to be stupid enough to use their services. Also, they use
POP3 only. No IMAP4 or APOP. I suggested them once (when they just
started) to write a client that runs from crontab every N minutes, checks
for your new mail, and notifies THEM through the internet. I told them to
go open source, so nobody would suspect backdoors or bugs. But they didn't
understand anything I said. They said users wouldn't want that, and it's
too complicated for their software engineers to code ("It would take
roughly 6 monthes to get to preliminary stages, where debugging will take
at least another month" -VP of development) I'm sure half the people on
this list can do it in perl or C in, let's be pesimistic, a day... :)

> I support filtering out all mailpush messages at the linux.org.il side (and
> forwarding them to someone at mailpush till they get the idea.)

Already complaining to support@mailpush.com about every confirmation I am
getting. Automatically. Anyone wants my .procmailrc? :)

Shachar Tal
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Taub Computer Center, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
finger me for contact info or PGP key.