[clue-tech] Mail server questions

[Nate Duehr]

I've only ever had one outage with them, and it was on their website as soon as I noticed it, and fixed within an hour.  They're pretty darn good when it comes to mail... 

Nate 

On Nov 11, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Matt Gushee wrote:

> Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
>> I used to run my own mail server (for more than 10 years).  After VERY
>> carefully considering the options as spam-filtering changes had become
>> almost a "part time job" for me and my users, I moved everything to
>> fastmail.fm - good prices, professionals who's job it is to work on
>> e-mail servers and virtually nothing but e-mail servers all day, every
>> day, and it got me out of the mail server "biz" so-to-speak forever for
>> $15 a year.
>> Think seriously about something like that.
> 
> Okay, I did, and it didn't take me long to realize you were right. Thanks for bringing me to my senses. In any case, I didn't *want* to run a mail server, I just thought I needed to. I had heard of Fastmail before, but didn't recall that such a thing existed. Anyway, the whole point of having my own server is to be able to deploy some [hopefully] cool Web apps I am developing. It would kinda defeat the purpose to spend all my time dicking around with Postfix.
> 
> As for it being a good learning experience, sure. I want to learn how to run a mail server, just like I want to learn every other skill there is ... but it's pretty far from my mission in life, so maybe in 80 years or so, after I learn to carve scrimshaw and before I learn to write Tifinagh. ;-)
> 
> So, Fastmail it is. I went with the $40/yr plan so I can use my own domain names (2 now, likely to increase). Still ... that's about what I spend on coffee in one month. Pretty damn good deal.
> 
> Thanks to all who responded. I hope your tips will prove useful to somebody who really does need to run a mail server.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Gushee