Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only non-desktop machine, and Comcast Business for

e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
This is going to start-off silly-sounding, but bear with me: My wife called and told me, a few months back, `Wikipedia is down!'. It took me a minute to figure out that she actually did mean that *Wikipedia* was down--not her laptop's WiFi, not our WAP, not our residential-grade DSL (*again*...),

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread mark
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@tedroche.com wrote: Providing email, spam filtering and network support is really beyond the scope of my services - mostly software development and application support -- so I'm hoping to find a service reliable enough to just configure

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: _What I want_: I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write messages and queue them for sending, move messages between folders,

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Dana Nowell
In keeping with what appears to be list etiquette I have chosen to partially ignore your subject line and provide an alternative solution to your issue. :) I have not used email through my Comcast business connection (have Comcast + DSL for redundant connectivity at work). Instead I chose to use

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua Judson Rosen
Ben Eisenbraun b...@klatsch.org writes: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: _What I want_: I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write messages and queue them

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I could just write a suite of code to implement this myself, but maybe someone can save me the effort by pointing me to a canned solution :) A many-to-many sync is extremely resource intensive. And the optimizations for doing it with fewer

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
Hi Joshua, Thanks, Ben Ha! My brain totally skipped the last paragraph of your first email in which you mention OfflineIMAP as a possibility and wonder about the topology question. Sorry. That wasn't very helpful. --any thoughts on the `sync topology' question, since I've got 4+ machines

Fwd: [boston.rb] Re: MongoDB Conference in Boston on Sept 20

2010-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
Someone had mentioned at ManchLUG that MongoDB was coming up but was a for pay conference. It appears to be, but a very reasonable price, if you are interested in Mongo. -- Forwarded message -- From: Meghan Gill meg...@10gen.com Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM Subject:

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Coutu
On 8/30/10 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Joseph Smith
On 08/30/2010 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 8/30/2010 2:08 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: On 08/30/2010 11:14 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: I could just write a suite of code to implement this myself, but maybe someone can save me the effort by pointing me to a canned solution :) A many-to-many sync is extremely resource intensive.

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 8/30/2010 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Steven C. Peterson
On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote: On 8/30/2010 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Jenkins
On 8/30/2010 10:51 PM, Steven C. Peterson wrote: To the best of my knowledge both the residential and commercial email is run by zimbra, with the exchange emulation turned on for the commercial accounts. this is based on marketing by zimbra, and the look and feel of the setup page we

Re: e-mail sync options?

2010-08-30 Thread Jeffry Smith
I've been using fetchmail with the -k option (keep on server) for years. jeff ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/