[lug] Linux email server recommendations

[Michael Belanger]

Glenn, you are not the first to recommend them!  ;)  I popped them a 
request for a quote yesterday..

Our organization is affiliated with CU in Boulder and I learned of a 
group called UnixOps.  They gave me a quote of around $400 to setup both 
my email server and my master DNS.  Right now, they are only supporting 
Redhat and freeBSD; I am hoping they will let me use the SuSE product.

-M

Glenn Ashton wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> I don't post much lately, but I would talk to tummy.com about doing mail
> server work.  If they can't do it, they will almost certainly have an
> appropriate recommendation.
> 
> I have used them in the past and currently subscribe to KRUD.  They are
> good folks personally and professionally and most importantly I trust
> them.  It's worth hitting their web site.
> 
> Glenn Ashton
> 303-245-7368
> 
> 
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Michael Belanger wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well.. I consulted with my boss and she is willing to price out the cost
>>of getting a consultant to come in and configure the server(s).
>>
>>Anyone have any non-biased recommendations on who I should inquire with?
>>
>>-M
>>
>>David Anselmi wrote:
>>
>>>Nate Duehr wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>On Apr 9, 2004, at 5:03 PM, Michael Belanger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Agreed.. But here are the reasons this wont fly...
>>>>>
>>>>>1.  We are a grant-based project. We just don't have the resources to
>>>>>farm out services like this.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Fair enough.  I still think it might be cheaper than you think to have
>>>>someone else deal with it completely, long-term.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>2.  Due to the sensitivity of the data being stored on the server,
>>>>>we just don't feel comfortable having them on a system on which we
>>>>>cannot guarantee privacy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>And this leads back to #1.  As a professional sysadmin for many years,
>>>>I have a hard time taking this statement very seriously.  If there's
>>>>one thing SMTP can never ever = it's Privacy.
>>>
>>>
>>>Possibly there's good reason to separate your externally accessible
>>>server from an internal, more sensitive server.  For a mail gateway and
>>>DNS (and perhaps even firewall), your Alpha may be up to the job and
>>>Debian runs well on an Alpha.
>>>
>>>Probably separating servers makes the admin job harder.  But security is
>>>one of those "pay me now or pay me later" things.  Take a look at the
>>>replies to the "my system was rooted, what should I do?" posts on
>>>various Linux lists.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
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