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" <[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 - > 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! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> 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 > [email protected] Linux Users Group > http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > 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 > >
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