I agree. I enjoyed installing and configuring Qmail Toaster. However I have lots of other things that demand my time. It's not feasible for me to run a mail server - would be a lot of fun though. There are other considerations as well.
The free Google Apps mail is limited to 10 email accounts. I need 20 for one group and 30 for another. That pushes me into the $5/mo or $50/yr. Rackspace offers commerial grade emial at $2/mo with 10Gig mailboxes.
If I am wrong about the Google free email please let me know.
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--- On Sat, 6/18/11, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
From: Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com>
Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
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Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011, 8:05 AM
It's really fun to run a mail server!
With a correctly configured postfix, exim or sendmail it's very fun.
Of course, I learned in 1995 in dot com startups where we were selling dialup maintaining multiple mail servers.
The people I worked with were all really creative and easy going.
Of course I prefer for security sake to use gmail relay now at home.
Another alternative is Google Aps for domains mail (free).
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:51 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
I think it is cheaper to spend $100 a month to let someone else run the email server than for me to take on all those headaches. I started down that path and found it was going to take a lot of on going effort. I's not the cost of the server, it is the cost of time.
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Keith Smith
--- On Fri, 6/17/11, Dan Lund <
situationalawareness@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Dan Lund <
situationalawareness@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Friday, June 17, 2011, 5:36 PM
You get to that amount, and it's on the border of creating your own mail server.
It's not terribly hard, it just takes security planning.
--Dan Lund
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
I looked at google and they are $5/mo or $50/yr per box. I need about 50 mailboxes. That turns out to be $1,800 more a year. Rackspace has 10g mailboxes and Google has 25g mailboxes. I'm guessing all else is equal. We just need plain old mail. Nothing fancy.
Thanks!
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Keith Smith
--- On Thu, 6/16/11, Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com> wrote:
From: Bryan O'Neal <
Bryan.ONeal@TheONealAndAssociates.com>
Subject: Re: Rackspace email & DNS
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 9:24 PM
No direct experience but I am have only heard good things about
rackspace. That said I let google do my email.
On 6/16/11, keith smith <
klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone have experience with Rackspace email and their DNS hosting service ?
> They have 10gig mailboxes for $2/mo each. And DNS can be added for
>
$5.00/yr.
>
> I'm testing their service now.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ------------------------
>
> Keith Smith
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