[lug] Email Services

[Michael J. Hammel]

FWIW:  I have a colo in tummy.com's data center.  Their hardware, but I
have full admin priv's on it and they manage my mail server.  I manage
things like ipsets, web servers, etc.  I don't know much about managing
mail servers.   It costs about $100/month, pricey by other hosting
options but I like that I've had the same system for >20 years now and
it's basically all mine.  tummy's support is exceptional.

Some domains I run on it have been black-or-gray listed by AT&T in the
past but that's because AT&T has less of clue about email than me. 
It's meant some email would bounce when coming via AT&T, but not that
often.  To get around that (when necessary) I just have people mail me
through my ACM.org account, which forwards just fine.  I don't have any
problems with outbound mail.

That said, I do need to upgrade the OS.  Yet another thing on my todo
list.

On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 14:18 -0600, Mike Witt wrote:
> On 10/22/2020 01:09:02 PM, dlwillson at thegeek.nu wrote:
> > If you're willing to run your own host, you could get everything
> > you
> > want from Zimbra Collaboration Server. I've been running one
> > happily  
> > for
> > over a decade.
> 
> Interesting. It was only a bit more than 10 years ago that I gave
> up  
> running my own mail server. It seemed like more and more nobody
> would  
> accept mail from me. Of course that was a different world email-
> wise.  
> I'm not sure if this is an option or not. I mean now-a-days I don't  
> even have a truly static IP address and (as far as I can tell)
> there's  
> no way I can get one from Comcast. In fact my current Comcast
> address  
> happens to be on a couple of block lists. No idea why, and it
> doesn't  
> matter at the moment.
> 
> Is there a "short answer" as to what Zimbra is and how it's
> different  
> than running sendmail or postfix?
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Michael J. Hammel
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