[aklug] Re: secondary or backup Email service

I've always been pretty much a believer in the "Golden Rule". As in, "He
who has the gold, makes the rules.".

I guess if you want them to keep paying you, you need to set up a mail
server.

I'll have to admit I've always wanted to have my own box on the internet
somewhere as well. I know I don't need one, I just want one. I've found
DSL to be a less than practical solution, at least any of the DSL
solutions we have available up here. Nobody around here really seems to
be set up for co-loing boxes and I just don't seem to trust my own
abilities enough to send a box out of state. I worry that I would break
the box to the point it would need a hands on re-build ... Then what?

I think both GoDaddy and DynDns have back-up email solutions as well as
some of the others I've seen mentioned.

Damien Hull wrote:
> I'm sure that's good stuff. Thought about it my self. Here's the
> problem. Clients have asked for their own email server. Why? Who
> knows. I tell them to find someone to host it. They come back with
> different reasons why that won't work. I figured if people are going
> to ask for email solutions I might as well be hosting my own.
>
> 1. I think it looks and sounds cool to say I host my own email
> 2. I can show off my solution
> 3. Keeps me in the email server management mode
>
> Here's what I'm using. It's all Open and Free.
>
> * Zimbra - It's a prepackaged groupware solution
> o Postfix
> o Apache
> o IMAP
> o POP3
> o Web interface
> + Ajax baby!
> * Zabbix - Monitoring tool with graphs.
> o I have it sending email to my cell
> o It can also do Jabber
> o GSM Modem for sms
>
>
> Jim Gribbin wrote:
>> I've been using Google's setup for domain mail for several weeks now
>> and have had no issues.
>>
>> I had some at first with their port numbers, but since I got that
>> figured out, it's been working fine.
>>
>> 5 GB per account, IMAP, and free is hard to beat. They let you put up
>> to 100 accounts per domain before you get into the paid service.
>>
>> Jim G
>>
>> Damien Hull wrote:
>>> It looks like I'm going to be hosting my own web and email at the
>>> end of the month. I would like to have a secondary Email server in
>>> case my mail server is unavailable. Can someone recommend a good
>>> backup/secondary email service?
>>>
>>> I did Google search and there are a lot out there. Thought I would
>>> ask before I picked one at random.
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Received on Tue Jan 8 14:08:11 2008