On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:17:25AM -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> The reason ISP's don't like to use IMAP and setup Full Featured web
> based mail
> is :
>
> 1) IMAP mail stays on the mail server.
> 2) People abuse mail storage systems. I have had people backing there
> machine up
> and saving the files on our mail server.
> 3) Any mail on the mail server is the responsibility of the ISP.
> 4) In Canada as of Jan 2004, Any mail on the mail server must be
> available to the
> customer, even if the account is suspended, all new mail must be
> rejected indicating
> that the account is suspended.
> 5) Due to privacy laws, it is in the ISP's best interest not to keep
> customer
> mail on their servers, for reasons of liability. If a hard drive becomes
> corrupted
> and someones mail is read unintentionaly during the recovery of damaged
> files,
> the ISP is liable to criminal and civil action.
>
> The mail is yours, so you should store it, and be resposible for it.
>
> Maybe before you whine about ISP's email offering you should, try and
> price out the
> costs for supporting 20,000 mail accounts. I keep about 300MB of mail on
> my machine
> but lets consider 30MB for an average user. I recieve about 1GB of mail
> {UCE included}
> per year, lets say 100MB for the average user. Now lets say ISP's pay
> about $0.01/MB of
> traffic, and 1MB of storage costs $10 per year to maintain. A user will
> read the good mail
> messages that they keep at least twice, and checks mail at least once a
> week. The other
> costs for equipment and labour are part of the overall service costs,
> not included here.
>
> IMAP
> 100MB to get mail to ISP
> 100MB to get mail to customer initialy
> 30MB to read mail a second time {UCE not read again}
> = 230MB traffic per year
> 230 * $0.01 = $2.3 per year
> 100MB / 52 ~ 2MB to store transient mail
> 30MB constant storage
> = 32MB
> 32 * $10 = $320 per year
> $2.3 + $320 = $322.3 per year = $26.86 per month
>
> POP3
> 100MB to get mail to ISP
> 100MB to get mail to customer
> = 200 MB traffic per year
> 200 * $0.01 = $2 per year
> 100MB / 52 ~ 2MB to store transient mail
> 2 * $10 = $20 per year
> $2 + $20 = $22 per year = $1.83 per month
>
> Savings using POP3
> $26.86 - $1.83 = $25.03 per month
> 25.03 / 26.86 = 93%
>
> Is IMAP worth $25 per month to you?
>
> By the way, we do provide squirrel mail for our customers, but we
> disabled the folders
> because it is supposed to be only for checking mail when away from your
> computer.
>
> For the $30 per month an ISP gets for a residential account, doesn't
> cover the costs
> an ISP must pay to service the account. Although residential DSL cost
> ISP's more than
> they get from the customer, to stay in the market residential DSL has to
> be offered
> and supplied at market rates.
>
I am in agreement with the analysis with this addendum. One of the features of pop is to leave a copy of the
mail on the server. So with pop and care3less users you can have the worst of both worlds.
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