On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:58:48 -0500, Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
Nico, do you have permission/authorization to connect this RC server to the campus Exchange server?
If he has an IMAP account, he can connect a client to it.
The only problem would be if the organization that provides the service has some strict list of approved IMAP clients and RC is not on that list.
RC is just a mail program (that's hosted in a server, so what?)
Anyone can install an OS like some GNU/Linux on their PC, stick RoundCube into Apache, and then he has an IMAP client.
There is no need to be in an "official capacity" to use an e-mail client, just because it's running inside a web server.
Furthermore, if you are not a member of the university IT staff, it is possible that network layer (router/qos) roadblocks are the reason for the abysmal performance, and you will never know this.
If I was running a mass IMAP server, I'd indeed want to have a tar pit against to slow down badly behaved clients that want to hammer the server with excessive connection requests.
Keep in mind none of us wants to assist a rogue student in doing something against university policy or without proper permission. Hacking is a personal endeavor, not one that should involve IT
Connecting to an IMAP server with your own credentials isn't hacking.
Connecting with someone else's isn't either; that's cracking. :)
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