[Cialug] E-mail

[Allen Kiddoo]

I vote google. Switched about 2 weeks ago. Finally got a smam message today-
did not know I had a Citizens Federal Bank account.

I just works.

Allen Kiddoo

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Neal Daringer <admin at c0wzftp.com> wrote:

> not to start a war or anything but google is free.
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> > I'm hosted on Yahoo!  No real complaints other than IMAP isn't an option
> but I'm using POP just fine.  I had a very similar situation as you and I
> finally got tired of the process of admin'ing email.  The biggest motivation
> wasn't the personal effect on me but that of my wife who would call hourly
> until the mail was back up and working.  Spending the $50/yr with Yahoo! is
> essentially hush money ;-)
> >
> > --Tony
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at DRAKE.EDU>
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:25:02 AM
> > Subject: [Cialug] E-mail
> >
> > For those who own their own domains, what do you do for e-mail services?
> >
> > For the last ~10 years i've had an OpenBSD box sitting on my home DSL
> > line running qmail as my mail server. Yesterday i lost power for about
> > 4 hours, and when power was restored the server wouldn't boot. The
> > machine is on a UPS and had a graceful shutdown, so i'm not sure why it
> > died. It was the first machine i ever built (486DX2/66, 20MB RAM, 2.5
> > GB HD; upgraded from 40 MHz/4MB/340MB). I suspect the power supply was
> > dead, but i didn't have any other machines with an AT power supply to
> > scavenge. Well, my firewall (the 486 in a cardboard box i brought to a
> > meeting many years ago), but i wasn't about to take that offline. So to
> > get mail running again i yanked the ethernet card and hard drive, and
> > dropped them into a Pentium-II i had in storage that was old enough to
> > have ISA slots. While it runs noticeably faster in the more modern
> > hardware, i'd like to look for something different. If most people
> > still manage their own e-mail and recommend it, i'll probably set up a
> > new server with more modern software and features. I'd really like both
> > IMAP and a web mail interface; currently i just have POP. Spam
> > filtering would also be nice as i currently get about 200/day on one of
> > my accounts. But if something like Google Apps or a different low-cost
> > paid service is easier to manage, i'd be interested in hearing about
> > experiences with those.
> >
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> > Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
> > Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
> > +1 515 271-4540                        Des Moines IA 50311 USA
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