>>>>> "David" == David Lang <da...@lang.hm> writes:
David> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Yves Dorfsman wrote: >> On 2016-07-06 10:17, Ted Cabeen wrote: >>> You've gotten lots of good answers. The only other one I'd want to mention >>> is >>> that you can also host your personal email out of your home server and use >>> an >>> AWS t2.nano instance to proxy the email in and out. That eliminates storage >>> charges for those of us with rather large email archives. At $72 for a >>> 3-year >>> reserved AWS t2.nano instance, the cost is super-low. >> >> The issue with this, is that you no longer have access to email when your ISP >> is down. This used not to be a problem, because no ISP meant no internet >> anyway, but these days with internet access via your phone, and the >> usefulness >> of email especially when there is an ISP outage, I think it is better to host >> outside home. David> I live in a place with not-so-good internet connectivity, and I David> think I would have a horrible time dealing with all my mail David> from home over such a connection (I currently have it all David> hosted at the house and ssh into the house when I'm away to run David> pine, sometimes from my phone/tablet) Usually you have better down connectivity than up, so I would think that hosting in the cloud would work pretty well. That's what I'm doing now, which is setting up a digital ocean droplet. The hard part is the migrating my domain and MX records away from the current registrar who I've been with for the last 20 years. But since the owner who was a friend sold the business, it's gone downhill. David> I've though about trying to setup the Cyrus replication David> features so that I would have a copy both at home and hosted David> outside, with the two copies syncing changes. Has anyone done David> anything along those lines? I'm not sure I'd bother. But... have you looked at Dovecot instead of Cyrus, and if so, which did you choose and why? I really think I want IMAP so that I can read home email on my phone more easily. Right now it's purely text based, which is awesome over a simple SSH connection, but getting more and more difficult as more and more images are sent in emails, and links to emails, etc. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
