In message <0100016b3e069855-f95cf3e2-9649-4a55-8290-24a9d44f80cc-000000@email. amazonses.com>, Antonio Leding <t...@leding.net> wrote:
>Just curious any reason to not use use the could-based Postfix >server + something like Dovecot and then have your clients access that >directly? I have this now for at least 20 domains and it works awesome. Firstly, I have no idea what you mean by "could-based Postfix". Was that a typo? What did you mean, actually? Secondly, in answer to what I think your question was... security. I'm not keen to have -any- of my mail piling up for any lenth of time on some cloud server that I don't have complete and -physical- control over. Paranoid? You bet. My plan... if I can figure out a way to do it... will be to have a Postfix instance running on some cloud VM someplace (with static IP, of course) and use that for inbound and outbound (smarthost), and meanwhile set up something like fetchmail here on my home system to pull down all of the pending inbound message for all of my domains, say, every 120 seconds or so. That way nothing will actually stay on the cloud server for very long, and if anyone manages to break into that, they won't find much in the way of my confidential emails, because the lifetime of each (stored) message there will typically be very very short. (Maybe Hillary Clinton should have been so careful! :-) >I'm not understanding why the need to relay the mail to your >local Postifix instance I'm sure there is a good reason >but I'm just not seeing as yet I have tried to explain my thought process. Now that I have done so, I feel sure that someone will explain to me, very logically, why I am a blithering idiot. That's OK, as long as I learn something in the process. Regards, rfg
