I was using postfix and dovecot on a linode until a few weeks ago. I just
gave up and moved into google apps for domains at the end of august.

My email address has been constant for over a decade, and basically I was
getting up to 1 spam message per second to the box -
http://serenity.dague.org/cgi-bin/mailgraph.cgi. Various techniques for
purging them work to different degrees, I still ended up with about 40 spam
messages a day getting through to my inbox, though more importantly, I had
a couple messages a day get flagged incorrectly as spam.

The large service provider algorithms are much better at detection in my
experience, and spamassassin really isn't seeing community love at this
point, sadly.

   -Sean

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Alan Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's been a while since I've set up a postfix install with an imap client
> from scratch.  I'm debating whether this pain is worth continuing through
> and then on to the pain of administering and dealing with spam,  etc.  I
> know a few folks here host their own mail and was wondering what the
> consensus was amongst everyone with respect to hosting vs. paying a
> provider.
>
> I just discovered citadel but haven't played with it yet.  I also know
> there are lots of cloud services that can easily take my domain's email for
> a few bucks a month.  Should I push on with postfix,  or citadel or just go
> for a mail hosting provider?
>
> Any experiences with citadel?  Can anyone recommend their email hosting
> provider?
>
> Thanks!
>
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