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So if you sign up for enhanced email with LinkedIn, all your incoming email goes through their servers ?
Proxy to return a header in your email. CSS to render the content upon click. IFrame to update content so it doesn't get cached. Cute web hacks. I don't understand the problem with simply using their mobile app if you were really looking for work. It sounds like an unnecessary feature for people who are looking and an annoyance to people who are not. That seems to be the problem of Linked In. They harass those who ar…
I don't think it is designed for people "looking for work". It seems to be built for business development. For example, an email like: "Hey, we met at a conference last month, just wanted to follow up..." - now you can see who they are, where they work, a profile picture to jog your memory and quickly connect - all from your email client. Very similar to what Rapportive did for Gmail.
Surely corporate IT departments are going to have a collective heart attack as employees start handing all their email to a third party?
Additional madness when the services inevitably closes and tens of thousands of corporate tickets are files about non-working email clients.
Edit: Have I missed the point? I'm sure LinkedIn is a little more cautious about such changes than your average newly-founded startup. This product gives them access to people emails which they can probably glean a lot of info from. They already try to get access into email accounts (username + password) via the LinkedIn webapp so in a way this is just extending that to mobile. The only reason I can imagine them shutting it down is if no-one uses it (in which case, no one will complain).
Wouldn't this essentially allow them access to read/analyze/archive all of your email for any account you set up?
Of course. They can send as you too, which given their spammy record is quite a huge issue. They will also be storing your IMAP password in plaintext.
I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox.
Technologically this is straightforward: it uses a proxy server that sits in between you and your actual mailserver. I think the privacy concerns of having your mail (potentially) available over yet another server in exchange for modest convenience makes it unlikely that I would use this, but I'm sure many will find the trade-off acceptable and desirable.
There are lots of concerns: * your local mail client might get different E-mail content every time mail is downloaded, which is not the intent of IMAP, * LinkedIn (hence, the NSA) gets full access to your E-mail, * once people get hooked it's easy to transition to inserting ads, or "more helpful LinkedIn content", I find all this rather disturbing and would never use this service.
I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox.