[clue-tech] Mail server questions

[Silas Martinez]

Your own mail server is absolutely a worthwhile learning exercise. That
said, for me, it stopped being interesting when it took more time than I
wanted to devote to email. Properly managing an email server used to be a
fairly time-intensive labor (or perhaps I was simply a lot less skilled with
it than I should have been).

These days, I'm interested in getting mail working well enough to send mail
from the server for handling error notification/web forms/etc etc. I'm not
interested in running pop or imap or the like, much less dealing with
spamassassin, rbl, relay config, and all that fun stuff - with regards to
mail delivery, either I'm working in a large organization where they want
full messaging/meeting/calendaring solutions (ergo exchange/notes/something
equally horrible and out of my domain) or its small enough that google is a
great solution.

I'm so out of touch these days with mail server config that I don't even
know if things like mail relaying take the time they used to.. Postfix was
pretty recent back then, IIRC, and qmail was the greatest thing since sliced
toast. I'm no longer interesting in having 'mail administrator' be a major
part of my role. Ugh. Lots of things are more interesting (for me).

Good Luck!

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote:
> >  Unfortunately, some of my remote access will
> > be from my workplace, where I can't install anything and don't even have
> my
> > own e-mail account, so I pretty much have to do something browser-based.
> >
> >> <David> When I got tired of spam I added greylisting.  Only.
> >
> > I'll check into that.
> >
>
> As at least one other reported, that's why I use Gmail. No maintenance
> by me, excellent and trainable spam filtering, and I can reach my mail
> from any internet connection. Well, almost any. My company has decided
> that such practices are EVIL, so I have to be on a non-standard vlan
> to read gmail.
>
> Spam accumulates in a special folder, and I just whack it (2
> keystrokes) once or twice a week. There are almost never any false
> positives. The most humorous thing about spam on Google: when you
> select the spam folder, at the very top is a tiny add for spam (the
> almost-meat stuff) recipes!
>
> OTOH, fielding you own email is a worthwhile learning exercise.
>
>
> --
> Collins Richey
>     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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