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I recommend considering fields in modeling and simulations (aeronautics/defense and power generation simulations were great opportunities for me going from ME undergrad to experienced SE). Expect to work in Fortran/Ada/C/C++ though, but I found an ME background is a huge advantage over the typical SE/CE candidates and are highly coveted by defense, utility, and consulting firms. It gives you endless opportunities to actually practice the diverse knowledge/skills built in a decent ME program.

That's correct, for now--great point. It certainly could--I'll bug it as an enhancement. Thank you!

Future plans are to put a really lightweight backend that facilitates configuration, routing, and authenticity checks (mostly SPF) during runtime but my primary goal is keeping it small. There are good things ahead once it comes out of weekend hack mode and fills out after the alpha release matures. Thank you so much for your help! Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I'd appreciate any feedback.

Perhaps, I should market this better on the site--hosted vs open source. Great feedback; thank you so much!

Thank you for your feedback and I couldn't agree more!

I wanted to make sure even if it didn't get enough traction for me to keep it up, users knew they were taken care of long term. It is 100% open source, released under the MIT License.

Please watch/star on GitHub https://github.com/withaspark/dewmail and I'd really appreciate requests, bugs, forks, and PRs!

@ikusalic

> Also, why do they have "You also need to have a dedicated IP address" in the requirements? Is this used somewhere in the validation process? I'm asking because the website runs on top of AWS S3, so I do not have dedicated IPs.

The reason is because in the past browsers did not support name based virtual hosts for SSL and require a dedicated IP to negotiate the initial connection. Wikipedia gives a decent overview on SNI. [1] Amazon CloudFront supports SNI (SSL named virtual hosts) since last March [2]...I don't know if there are costs involved on the AWS side.

According to Qualys, the users of the following clients would not be able to negotiate a connection to your site if you don't have a dedicated IP and use SNI instead:

- Android 2.3.7

- BingBot Dec 2013

- IE 6 / XP

- IE 8 / XP

- Java 6u45

- Yahoo Slurp Jun 2014

Implementation notes for the more popular web servers for posterity or in case you migrate from AWS:

- Apache https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHosts

- Nginx.org links to https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-ssl-vhosts-under-ng...

I know Digital Ocean/Linode/Rackspace also offer some really good resources too aside from the SSL provider docs. I've been extremely pleased with the certs/support Namecheap resells over the past 7 years. And they do include the bare domain in the SAN automatically--it has been included for all certificates I've ever purchased. Hope this helps!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/03/05/amazon-...

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/20/technology/firefox-mozilla-g...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2009/tc200...

[3] https://www.yahoo.com/tech/firefox-update-sees-yahoo-replace...

[4] http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/study/2345837/google-search...

[5] http://gs.statcounter.com/#desktop-browser-ww-monthly-200807...

This was by far the most amazing lecture yet. Practical, actionable, and concise. Major kudos to Kevin Hale; this has helped me so much.

OP here. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated--code, documentation, practicality. Thank you so much for your time!