Dreamhost hosts over half a meg domains, luring customers with affordable rates and acres of hardware and bandwidth. They’ve also been historically pretty beatific in cost of using unstoppered tools and standards. Amid tales of scheme hosts existence miscellaneously annoying and prohibiting humble tools same ssh, Dreamhost ever seemed same a decorous option. (I myself hit never been their customer.)

In Jan they forfeited a aggregation of friends when they mis-billed their client base, then additional hurt to trauma with an too sacrilegious apology.

More displeasing to me is the host’s past decision to attain Procmail, the artist and coercive mail-filtering tool, unobtainable to users, after providing it for years.

A whatever of my possess scheme apps verify manual from users via telecommunicate as an deciding to a scheme interface, and Procmail is conception of that communication chain. That’s not exceptional these days. Fortunately my apps are hosted elsewhere.

Dreamhost is not exchange Procmail with Maildrop or Sieve or added non-proprietary tool. They’re exchange it with their possess in-house filtering mechanism, which they organisation — at whatever saucer — to attain “more burly so [sic] simulate some ordinary procmail jobs”.

Seems same a advise absent from beatific things same interoperability, portability, standardization, and gift your customers what they’ve become to expect.

See Also:

• Poll: What Do You Use to Sort Your E-mail?
• Can The Gov Shutdown A Website Without A Court Order?
• Dreamhost Blocking BitTorrent Again

Melted From: Wired: Compiler