On 1/23/2011 10:04 AM, Matthew Barr wrote: > I'm researching a new build of my mailserver. I'd like to figure out what's > the best option for dealing w/ Antispam / AV, as well as the other processes.. > > I know of 2 major choices- do it your self, or outsource. I'm not > looking to outsource the entire thing, though.. just AV/AS. > > 1. Outsource: Postini, or other providers. I'm open to suggestions - do > people like them? Do they price based on inbound address, or domain, or > volume? > (I've got very few actual addresses, but that's mostly because there are a > bunch of aliases. Aliases will likely show up as email addresses to them, > though.) > > There are 2 non-profits being hosted, which might make it easier to justify > going outside, if there are discounts for them. > > > 2. Do it myself. I'm fairly happy to do it myself, and will need most of > it anyways - but am trying to figure out which policy daemon to use for > postfix. Have people started using the multi instance postfix support? > Milters? or just use amavisd-new, etc. Or maybe Mailscanner.. > > I suspect that dovecot is the way I'll go, just for a change from Courier on > the old server. > > > Yes, it's somewhat silly to do this myself. But I can't go ahead and keep up > w/ the tech for mailservers at work if I don't keep running one at home. > Plus I host a few other domains for friends, and nonprofits. We would likely > use Postini for mail at work, so it's not so bad to use it at "home".. >
I'm going through this [painful] exercise right now actually. After running my own mail server for many years on my own domain, I went through conversion from an ADSL setup with some static IPs to FIOS with a single dynamic IP, mostly for bandwidth. What I've run into, is that my home mail server *no longer works* to speak to a lot of outside places. They simply refuse connections from dynamic space. I remember dealing with this years ago when we relocated from MD to NJ, in terms of getting the big guys to recognize that you aren't a spammer, but now it's even worse. So, I'm currently (since Thursday when Verizon abruptly terminated my DSL in the process of conversion), moving all of my email to google apps for hosted mail and dyndns.com to provide my little home web server with a connection. It seems to be working, though I'm having to deal with lags and a little bit of trouble mailing some people in the interim. So, I have dovecot at home, and procmail, and spamprobe, and they all work great, but I simply don't have a solution for sending email to people using this setup.. Don't get me wrong, I think that blocking mail from the entire FIOS netblock is probably a pretty smart thing for most people to do. Who knows how many of my FIOS neighbors are infected with spam bots right now. ;) it seems like gmail still gives me the management control and all of the transition tools that this works. * this message sent through my entire mailbox and folders moved into gmail, using the same old mail client. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
