Realize that mhvlug.org is on that box so this email conversation has net
me 4 in bound and 700ish out bound emails.
On Sep 14, 2012 7:44 PM, "Alan Snyder" <[email protected]> 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" <[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!
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Sean Dague                                       Mid-Hudson Valley
>> [email protected]                                   Linux Users Group
>> http://dague.net                                 http://mhvlug.org
>>
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>   Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art
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