Mail server add-on for ReadyNAS?

claykin wrote:
Is it just me or is anyone else concerned about security vulnerabilities by exposing services to the Internet?

That is a risk and a valid concern, of course, but I would trust ReadyNAS to ensure they limit that risk. After all, they already expose various services such as the photo sharing functionality, I don't see this as being very much different.

claykin wrote:
IMO, if you want great IMAP functionality get an IMAP email account. There's several ways to do this. Even Godaddy offers IMAP for domain owners and you can get 10 with unlimited size mailboxes for $30/year. Yep, per year, not month! Let Godaddy worry about the security vulnerabilities and spam/virus prevention, instead of it being your issue.

My ISP handles my email and unfortunately they don't support IMAP (and never will) and I don't particularly want to have to pay for it if at all possible - I really think ReadyNAS/Netgear might be missing a trick hear particularly as the competition offer it already. In addition I don't want my email routed by yet another third party to store on their servers - they're just as likely to be exploited as any other user of software. What about Apache being exploited the other week? Sh1t happens to everyone, at least I'd be in control when it happens to me and not beholden to a $30/year faceless entity with all my emails available on the internet - worst comes to the worst I'd just disable the IMAP server until the problem is fixed.