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.
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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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