How would a hosting company like umbrellar (https://www.umbrellar.nz/our-solutions/email-hosting/) do for your email? Cheapest offering looks like you can get to pick 1 email box and an smtp service and specify the domain (do you have your own domain name?) to use with 1GB storage and 1000 messages per month for $10 per month. There are possibly other kiwi providers offering similar, I just happen to know about this one but have only used them for web hosting so don't know about their email offerings. -Bryce.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Criggie Sent: Wednesday, 20 September 2017 1:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Time to change email - VMs (Steven Sykes) > 2. Re: Time to change email (Volker Kuhlmann) From: Steven Sykes <[email protected]> > On 19/09/17 19:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > While I've been popping email for the last 19 years and therefore not > leaving stuff on an email server somewhere, I might as well make life > easier on myself and use IMAP. That introduces a second requirement of > having a provider that doesn't hand over all my stuff from their > servers because they do not defend users. POP3 needs to die. Let it go. There is no setup where pop3 is the correct answer, unless a component dates from 10+ years ago in which case the question becomes one of upgrades. Why have an email provider at all? Host your own mailserver and keep it in-house or at least totally under your control. A hosted VM somewhere would be awesome and if it fails you have noone to blame but yourself. I'd offer a personal VM to CLUGgers, but I still only have one IPv4 address, so that doesn't play nicely with separation, which affects reputation. If you want an IPv6 only VM, I could do something, but realistically the lack of v4 would stuff you up. How about an AWS t2.micro in Sydney AWS for $11.68 US/mo or $9.49 US/mo with reserved instances? That's 1GB ram and 100% of 1 core for 144 minutes a day. Larger sizes available but they get spendy quickly. Disk is priced at $0.12 USD/GB/month for general purpose SSD or $0.05 USD/GB/mo for magnetic storage. You get one elastic IPv4 address for free, and additional v4 IPs cost half a cent per hour, or ~$3.72 US per month. IPv6 is offered, but I've not found a price on it. On the other end you can have a X1.32xlarge with 128 cores, 1952 GB ram, two 1.9TB SSD and 25 Gbit networking for $14,118 US/mo or $8,700 if committed. This site is very useful for comparing instance sizes and costs. http://www.ec2instances.info/?region=ap-southeast-2&cost_duration=monthly Another option is https://www.vpscity.co.nz/vps-servers offerings starting from $20NZ /mo. I've never used these. -- Criggie http://criggie.org.nz/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
