Hi, On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, John Hansen wrote:
> I'm looking to rebuild our current email server and was wondering if anyone > has a good tutorial on how to do that, especially with the configurations. I'm > looking at using the following on 8.04 LTS. > Postfix, Dovecot, LDAP, Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, ClamAV, Grey listing, and > OpenWebmail. As someone who runs several, do you have a really good reason to run an in-house mail server? If so, fair enough. If not, I'd be looking at getting someone to take the workload off you. Gmail is an obvious free service (who will remove adverts for educational customers) but there are lots of other services (some cheap if not free) available too. I'm curious to know what the compelling reasons are to go to the trouble of self-hosting and not use a service like Gmail. To have someone else provide an excellent webmail system with pretty good spam filtering that's also available over pop3/imap from anywhere, provide large storage, excellent integrated calendaring with Email/SMS notifications, very high uptime and reliability all for free. It seems you'll create a lot of work for yourself trying to make a poor-man's version of it. Economies of scale are pretty enormous in this industry. I guess the big scarey word "privacy" is likely to come up. Is that the only reason? To what degree is this really a concern? We're all geeks and like to run things ourselves and be in control of systems, but we also owe it to our employers to allocate our available scarce resources as best we can. I'm not saying this is necessarily the answer for you, but I'm curious to hear people's thoughts. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
