On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Grant Taylor via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
> On 12/03/2017 10:08 AM, Filip Hruska wrote: > >> It's kind of a pain to manage a mail server. >> > > I disagree. > > I have been running my own mail server for > 15 years and extremely happy > with it. > > I spend less than an hour a month needing to do things to it. Usually > that's just the same type of OS updates that I do to my workstation. > > Having my own mail server gives me a LOT more flexibility than relying on > someone else's mail server. For those of us who have the savvy to do so competently, sure. For others, the key word may be "provider". Setting up a Linode server on static IP space (to avoid being blacklisted), setting up greylisting, antivirus/antispam (maybe?), STARTTLS, etc. ... Maybe the OP is interested in outsourcing all of that - letting someone else stay current with patching, spammer tactics, etc. Royce
