[Cialug] E-mail

[Neal Daringer]

not to start a war or anything but google is free.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> I'm hosted on Yahoo!  No real complaints other than IMAP isn't an option but I'm using POP just fine.  I had a very similar situation as you and I finally got tired of the process of admin'ing email.  The biggest motivation wasn't the personal effect on me but that of my wife who would call hourly until the mail was back up and working.  Spending the $50/yr with Yahoo! is essentially hush money ;-)
>
> --Tony
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:25:02 AM
> Subject: [Cialug] E-mail
>
> For those who own their own domains, what do you do for e-mail services?
>
> For the last ~10 years i've had an OpenBSD box sitting on my home DSL
> line running qmail as my mail server. Yesterday i lost power for about
> 4 hours, and when power was restored the server wouldn't boot. The
> machine is on a UPS and had a graceful shutdown, so i'm not sure why it
> died. It was the first machine i ever built (486DX2/66, 20MB RAM, 2.5
> GB HD; upgraded from 40 MHz/4MB/340MB). I suspect the power supply was
> dead, but i didn't have any other machines with an AT power supply to
> scavenge. Well, my firewall (the 486 in a cardboard box i brought to a
> meeting many years ago), but i wasn't about to take that offline. So to
> get mail running again i yanked the ethernet card and hard drive, and
> dropped them into a Pentium-II i had in storage that was old enough to
> have ISA slots. While it runs noticeably faster in the more modern
> hardware, i'd like to look for something different. If most people
> still manage their own e-mail and recommend it, i'll probably set up a
> new server with more modern software and features. I'd really like both
> IMAP and a web mail interface; currently i just have POP. Spam
> filtering would also be nice as i currently get about 200/day on one of
> my accounts. But if something like Google Apps or a different low-cost
> paid service is easier to manage, i'd be interested in hearing about
> experiences with those.
>
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