What are you currently using for your email services? Is it in-house or hosted? What is your current server infrastructure? Active Directory, I assume? How many servers and what version (Small Business Server 2003 for instance?)
What is your feeling toward outsourcing your email? It sounds like maybe you don't have a lot of in-house IT folks. If that is the case, I HIGHLY recommend outsourcing your email services, rather than hosting them in-house. Many people will disagree with me, but that's my two cents. Google Apps is free for education, so the cost to use them for your hosted email is essentially zero. We moved to Google Apps for Education several years ago and have never looked back. We do have an internal email relay to send email to Google from some devices on campus (like our photocopiers and various servers.) Chris On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I need help. I work for a school system and am trying to accomplish a few > things on a tight budget (I think we have some money for consulting). I > know I can do what I have in mind on a Linux server or two but I am lacking > some experience. I am looking for someone who can help me get up to speed. > Some of the things I would like to do are: > > - Set up a mail server that will relay email messages from our student > data system without becoming an open relay for spammers. > - Setup up Mailman and be able to recover from hardware failure, etc. > - Setup a work order system (thinking osTicket) and be able to recover > from hardware failure, etc. > - Possibly set up a web server with a CMS and be able to recover from > hardware failure, etc. > - Possibly set up an internal DNS server to take the load off our > Domain Controller. > > I am at the point where I have actually all this at one time or another on > a test server, I just don't feel comfortable with what I know moving > forward into production. I am looking for someone with the heart of a > teacher help me move forward. > > Thank you. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
