Yeah I had postfix and dovecot setup with spam assassination and clamav. My in box was constantly filled with spam and cpu utilization was a bit high for the all in one vps box I was paying for. Figured for the price its best to let someone else worry about email. I need this particular account to 'just work'. I will still setup a box I host myself just to play but for stuff I need to rely on I'd like to be able to take vacation and not worry about it :) On Sep 17, 2012 11:58 PM, "Chris Knadle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday, September 17, 2012 07:13:16 PM Eric Myers wrote: > > I've moved some e-mail traffic to Google accounts, but I still run my own > > Postfix server on a machine at home, one I built myself. I filter spam > > with procmail. I'd like to set up IMAP with dovecot, but have not yet > > done so. But it sounds like I'm one of the few of us left. > > We shall see how long it lasts. > > > > -Eric > > I'm still hosting my own email and don't have any plans to change that. > One > of the things I've enjoyed lately is using ManageSieve with Dovecot. The > ManageSieve protocol allows for changing Sieve filtering rules from within > the > MUA (i.e. the mail client) while the filtering is done server-side. What's > nice about this is you can use IMAP and yet have all your email > automatically > filtered into folders (or junked, etc). To do this I had to have Dovecot > as > the MDA (mail delivery agent) however. > > I still think that hosting one's own email is relevant, although it seems > to > be increasingly rare. > > If you're setting up your own, I'd recommend Exim or Postifx as the MTA and > Dovecot for IMAPs/POP3s access. > > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Alan Snyder 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! > > -- > > -- Chris > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > 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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