[Cialug] E-mail

[Ken MacLeod]

I've had my email domain for almost 20 years.  About three years ago I
started forwarding my wife's and my email from my domain mail server
to our gmail accounts and set up the gmail accounts to mark replies as
coming from my domain.  It's been working great.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Neal Daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com> wrote:
> i use google apps. it definetly took away all the hassle of keeping up
> with spam and i have virtually unlimited accounts. i still maintain my
> own dns @ everydns.net (free). godaddy is for domain renewals.
>
> i dont see myself having my domain 10 years from now let alone the
> exact same email address.
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
> <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for the discussion so far. I don't like administering
>> e-mail. I'm happy to do it at work where i'm paid for it, but don't
>> like doing it on my own network for free. I set up my current system
>> about 10 years ago and have migrated it to different hardware a couple
>> times as old equipment died but not really changed the software. (I'd
>> be rather embarrassed to admit what version of OpenBSD the mail server
>> runs...)
>>
>> Google Apps is tempting. I have a couple friends using it for their
>> domains who seem to like it. But e-mail is something i dislike messing
>> with enough that if i make any changes, i don't want to have to really
>> think about it again for another 10 years. Will Google Apps still exist
>> as it does now in 10 years? I don't know, but i doubt it since 10 years
>> is such a long time in the computer industry. Did Google even exist 10
>> years ago? I'm also not sure i'd like to entrust my mail to a
>> commercial service that is offered for free since at any time in the
>> future they could pull the plug on it and i'd have to scramble to set
>> up something else.
>>
>> If i continue running my own, i'll probably go with some sort of Postfix
>> setup. I've used qmail until now because at the time i set it up it
>> seemed the best choice; others (including the venerable sendmail)
>> either had a poor security history or were still early in development.
>> These days i'd probably go with Postfix since it is the MTA i'm most
>> easily able to wrangle into submission these days, having configured it
>> on various machines at work.
>>
>> I like the idea of renting a virtual host somewhere outside my
>> apartment. I've been considering that anyway. I got engaged recently,
>> and the fiancée is not a techie person like me so i doubt she'll
>> appreciate the rack of servers i keep in my apartment as much as i do.
>> Becoming weary of the noise, over the last few years i've migrated most
>> of the servers to modern low-power computers anyway. After the
>> migration i saw a reduction in both computer noise and power bills. But
>> if i could kill the remaining computer noise completely, get back the
>> space my server rack takes up, and lower the power bills even more,
>> that just might just be worth the monthly cost of renting a virtual
>> machine somewhere or even a dedicated co-located machine. And as Tom
>> pointed out, services located outside the apartment are far less prone
>> to outages due to things such as moving, which i'll probably have to
>> deal with somewhat soon-ish as another consequence of engagement.
>>
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>> Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
>> Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
>> +1 515 271-4540                        Des Moines IA 50311 USA
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