All of this, except Ken's response, has nothing to do with the real cost. The real cost is not making a server run, it is dealing with the users. The more you have, the worse and more stupid they get which takes longer to solve.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:52 AM Steve <[email protected]> wrote: > I've run Surgemail and Zimbra without any issues for years. Surgemail is > cheap fast and extremely configurable. It has a mirror license you can get > so you run servers flawlessly. I nan get it installed and running in > literally 3 minutes. It pretty much configures itself. It isn't the best > looking webmail but in the back end it is the most granular and fast mail > server I've ever seen. > > Zimbra well its free and a somewhat decent exchange alternative. Runs > like a pig compared to Surgemail but it is solid. > > Roundcube I've run it only in test environments and I'm actually looking > at it again for domain hosting. So far no issues and it looks nice. I'll > have to see once you get a couple hundred people running on it how well it > really works. > > It really isn't that much work to manage mail servers at all. Once they > are set up if you keep them up to date they really can be left alone. They > alert you to any problems ahead of time. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 8:18:25 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube > > There seems to be two camps. One where people are running away form their > own e-mail servers and then those that embrace it. I haven't found e-mail > to be that difficult to manage. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chuck Hogg" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:01:35 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube > > > I hope you are charging handsomely for email. We just quit it for our > customer base...and only had 2-3 complaints. Everyone already has an email > address. > > > > > > > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Eric Kuhnke < [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > > Any tips of tricks for success with using Roundcube to provide webmail to > individual end users (not a single domain corporate environment)? > > Server side is postfix + spamassassin + dovecot. > > I have a successful 'test' setup of roundcube running in a VM doing > TLSv1.2 on smtp and imap, logged into several user accounts on test domains > on the dovecot server. > > Wondering if anyone has run into hiccups or weird things when using > roundcube in a production environment. >
