If its too hard for them to setup the pop3 catch all, we can probably
put some mapping in place to smtp froward mail to their server. This is
more complex on our part so would prefer not to do it that way, but its
an option and will require not setup on their part other than make sure
their server does not accept mail for anyone other than our server.
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> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:26:11 -0800
> From: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha?
> To: "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick@colby.edu>
> Cc: dovecot@dovecot.org
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> I'm sure some of my customers would also freak if they knew I was using
> "Alpha" code. Besides, who expects a 1.0 version to be perfect?
>
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>
>> For political reasons, I would like to see alphaX promoted to
"1.0".
>> My boss had a cow the other day when I told her we are running alpha
>> code in production. My defense was "you hadn't noticed
because it
>> works." Or at least call alpha6 something like "beta1"
instead.
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:42:09 -0800
>>> From: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
>>> To: dovecot@dovecot.org
>>> Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the
Alpha?
>>>
>>> I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and
come out with
>>> an official version 1.0.
>>>
>>> Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people
should be
>>> using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the
>>> previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and
stable as
>>> all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0.
>>>
>>> The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x
version being
>>> obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created
>>> confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less
>>> ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label.
>>>
>>> Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it
up.
>>> I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think
that
>>> the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in
>>> production.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marc Perkel - marc@perkel.com
>>>
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