I recently had a similar conversation on #mhvlug. After weighing the options I decided to go with a fastmail.fm account for my family's email. Like Sean my email address has been the same for about a decade and I also didn't want to run a mail server. Not that I'm disinterested in how it works. It's just that I've done it in the past and really feel it's one of those things I want to outsource, like lawn mowing.
I've been using fastmail for about three weeks and haven't run into any problems. My other choices were Rackspace and Google. I'll probably get a linode if/when I feel the need to run some websites again. -Mark On Fri, Sep 14, 2012, at 07:44 PM, Alan Snyder wrote: Am I reading those charts wrong? your sent rate is consideravly higher than your received rate? seems like those should be reversed? thanks for the advice.. I've been feeling for a while that hosting email was a lost cause. this will ultimately be for a business account so I definitely dont want to be wasting time going through spam. I'm going to look into service providers to handle this for me. anyone have experience with greengeeks? On Sep 14, 2012 7:06 PM, "Sean Dague" <[1][email protected]> wrote: 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 - [2]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 <[3][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! _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group [4]http://mhvlug.org [5]http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel -- Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley [6][email protected] Linux Users Group [7]http://dague.net [8]http://mhvlug.org _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group [9]http://mhvlug.org [10]http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group [11]http://mhvlug.org [12]http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Oct 3 - Mobile Web Development Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://serenity.dague.org/cgi-bin/mailgraph.cgi 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://mhvlug.org/ 5. http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. http://dague.net/ 8. http://mhvlug.org/ 9. http://mhvlug.org/ 10. http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug 11. http://mhvlug.org/ 12. http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug
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