Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

[Elliott Clark]

John Jolet wrote:

>On Monday 24 October 2005 10:37, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 11:29 -0400, Mark wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of
>>>bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting
>>>provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in
>>>the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL
>>>provider we use will host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch
>>>firewall already in place, but this is the first step we've taken
>>>toward making anything available inbound, so I'm cautiously
>>>optimistic.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Mark
>>>[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]
>>>
>>>
>>I have an in-house mail server.  In my experience, the only problem I
>>have with it is when our cable Internet goes out.  I pay $99USD a month
>>for cable Internet with a static IP and the cable usually goes out for a
>>couple of hours on the weekends (grrr).  Other than that I haven't
>>really had any problems with it...
>>
>>
>this might be a little off-topic, but zoneedit.com will provide a
>store-and-forward backup mx for like $10/year.  That's what I use.
>
>
I too have a local mail server and I came to the conclusion that I would 
really like a mx backup server.  However I already spend too much on 
internet services.  So what I would love to do is set up some kind of 
gentoo community run mx backup web.  Something were users get 2 backup 
servers and they are a backup server for two others.  However this would 
require some trust and a lot of programing to get a utility to create 
configs for all of the different mail servers out there.

I posted on the forums but didn't get any real response so looks like 
the flaws are too great.  But the idea still kinda stands find someone 
else who needs a mx server and exchange.  You be their backup and they 
be yours.
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