Suggestion for a webmail application with good Hebrew Support

[Michael Tewner]

2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman <dannyl at software.co.il>

> Shachar
>
> On the Internet - size is not an indication of threat surface. Ability to
> provision and maintain is more important.
>
> You have to engineer your solution to your needs.
>
> For us - the combination of Google Apps, slicehost (for smaller projects) /
> rackspace (for big projects) rocks.
>
> Google Apps Mail and Calendar are amazing applications especially if you
> have colleagues in 5 or 6 time zones  and people with iphones and
> blackberries like we do
>
> I can't believe that there are people on Linux-IL who seriously consider
> Squirrel Mail a competitor.
>

There you go again with the "Don't even think about hosting your own
Webmail"

Danny - There are companies out there which consider internal mail as
"classified" - Hosting the emails on third-party servers, even encrypted
versions of the emails, is simply a security threat. It's called keeping
your data "close to home", and it's quite important, especially when your
content might be problematic in other jurisdictions.

And anyway - no one outside of my company network/VPN should have IMAP/POP3
access to the mail server. With Google Apps you carefully craft your office
firewall rules, then move mailbox access to *outside* of the network??!!

-mike



> d
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Shachar Shemesh <shachar at shemesh.biz>wrote:
>
>>  Amos Shapira wrote:
>>
>> 2009/8/18 Danny Lieberman <dannyl at software.co.il> <dannyl at software.co.il>:
>>
>>
>>  d) We deploy security countermeasures to protect assets:
>> 0) We don't use Google docs, Never.
>> 1) None of our really sensitive assets are on Google Apps and that includes
>> Calendar and Mail
>>
>>
>>  So what's left from your use of Google?
>>
>> BTW - do you (the plural "you" to the entire list) consider mail
>> hosting by other companies besides Google as more secure?
>>
>>
>>  In most aspects, yes.
>>
>> First, another provider will likely be a smaller target (security by
>> anonymity).
>> Second, another provider are not cross linking your emails with other
>> things they know about you. Granted, that's mostly because they don't have
>> that other info, but whatever the reason - it works.
>>
>> As for traditional security - Google's extra size is a mixed blessing. I
>> wouldn't work with someone small using a tailor made solution, but someone
>> using a standard solution is likely, in the long run, to provide comparable
>> security level to those Google provide (theoretical more chance of being
>> vulnerable is offset by less chance of being exploited).
>>
>> Shachar
>>
>> --
>> Shachar Shemesh
>> Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.http://www.lingnu.com
>>
>>
>
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