I don't deal with users at all. (Our support guys do) We get the occasional call to help someone set up their tablet or phone. That's it. The occasional account gets hacked as well which we get notification about and the account gets suspended until they are clean of viruses.
Plus a selling point is that you are not putting all your email out on some public server that can get hacked (Yahoo anyone?) and monitored and targeted continually. Marketed to, spammed, and privacy violated. Having your own private server ensures control over your own communication and information. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Bergman" <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:06:37 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube All of this, except Ken's response, has nothing to do with the real cost. The real cost is not making a server run, it is dealing with the users. The more you have, the worse and more stupid they get which takes longer to solve. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 9:52 AM Steve <li...@wavedirect.org> wrote: > I've run Surgemail and Zimbra without any issues for years. Surgemail is > cheap fast and extremely configurable. It has a mirror license you can get > so you run servers flawlessly. I nan get it installed and running in > literally 3 minutes. It pretty much configures itself. It isn't the best > looking webmail but in the back end it is the most granular and fast mail > server I've ever seen. > > Zimbra well its free and a somewhat decent exchange alternative. Runs > like a pig compared to Surgemail but it is solid. > > Roundcube I've run it only in test environments and I'm actually looking > at it again for domain hosting. So far no issues and it looks nice. I'll > have to see once you get a couple hundred people running on it how well it > really works. > > It really isn't that much work to manage mail servers at all. Once they > are set up if you keep them up to date they really can be left alone. They > alert you to any problems ahead of time. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Hammett" <af...@ics-il.net> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 8:18:25 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube > > There seems to be two camps. One where people are running away form their > own e-mail servers and then those that embrace it. I haven't found e-mail > to be that difficult to manage. > > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > Midwest Internet Exchange > http://www.midwest-ix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chuck Hogg" <ch...@shelbybb.com> > To: af@afmug.com > Sent: Thursday, November 5, 2015 6:01:35 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Roundcube > > > I hope you are charging handsomely for email. We just quit it for our > customer base...and only had 2-3 complaints. Everyone already has an email > address. > > > > > > > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Eric Kuhnke < eric.kuh...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > > > Any tips of tricks for success with using Roundcube to provide webmail to > individual end users (not a single domain corporate environment)? > > Server side is postfix + spamassassin + dovecot. > > I have a successful 'test' setup of roundcube running in a VM doing > TLSv1.2 on smtp and imap, logged into several user accounts on test domains > on the dovecot server. > > Wondering if anyone has run into hiccups or weird things when using > roundcube in a production environment. >
