[OpenIndiana-discuss] The mailing list is dead

[Gary Gendel]

On 12/15/2015 5:37 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think that having your own mail server/domain these days it dirty cheap
>> and everyone should have one :D
>
> It's cheap in terms of money but costs a LOT of time.
>
> In a previous job I managed a mail server and I probably spent a third of
> my working hours just dealing with tuning spam filters and trying to keep
> the system usable and secure under the deluge of spam and abuse.
>
> I also used to run my own home email server, but I found it ate way too
> much of my free time; also, IMAP isn't really a good solution when you have
> three or four different devices, and none of the open-source web UIs worked
> well for me.
Strange, this is exactly why IMAP was created. I run my own mail server 
using spamdyke for SMTP and dovecot for IMAP.  I have a dozen of mobile 
and desktop devices that read and send mail and don't have an issue.  I 
have been running for many years without a single change to the 
configuration files.  I used to have my own spam control software since 
I ran a SunOS server, once I discovered spamdyke I never looked back.  
Stellar spam control and always stable.  The developer runs several 
cpu-days of regressions before releasing a new version.

> Even the central IT department where I work has come to the same conclusion
> -- they no longer run their own email servers, but contract out to Google
> and Microsoft for it.
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