On Thu, 7 Jul 2016, John Stoffel wrote:
"David" == David Lang <da...@lang.hm> writes:
David> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
On 2016-07-06 10:17, Ted Cabeen wrote:
You've gotten lots of good answers. The only other one I'd want to mention is
that you can also host your personal email out of your home server and use an
AWS t2.nano instance to proxy the email in and out. That eliminates storage
charges for those of us with rather large email archives. At $72 for a 3-year
reserved AWS t2.nano instance, the cost is super-low.
The issue with this, is that you no longer have access to email when your ISP
is down. This used not to be a problem, because no ISP meant no internet
anyway, but these days with internet access via your phone, and the usefulness
of email especially when there is an ISP outage, I think it is better to host
outside home.
David> I live in a place with not-so-good internet connectivity, and I
David> think I would have a horrible time dealing with all my mail
David> from home over such a connection (I currently have it all
David> hosted at the house and ssh into the house when I'm away to run
David> pine, sometimes from my phone/tablet)
Usually you have better down connectivity than up, so I would think
that hosting in the cloud would work pretty well. That's what I'm
doing now, which is setting up a digital ocean droplet.
'better down than up' can still result in too little down. Think four geeks with
3Mb down :-(
I still am subscribed to linux-kernel amoung other things. dealing with 1k+
messages/day locally with cyrus/pine is no big deal. Doing the same thing over a
congested link, competing with browsing/streaming/etc is not a nice thing.
At work they went from a local exchange server to office365 and there was a
significant degredation in service for dealing with large amounts of mail.
David> I've though about trying to setup the Cyrus replication
David> features so that I would have a copy both at home and hosted
David> outside, with the two copies syncing changes. Has anyone done
David> anything along those lines?
I'm not sure I'd bother. But... have you looked at Dovecot instead of
Cyrus, and if so, which did you choose and why?
I started with Cyrus. How would Dovecot be any better? Does it have back-end
replication/clustering/failover like Cyrus does? or some other feature that
would let me replicate/split my mail repository?
I routinely have high tens of thousands, to low hundreds of thousands of mail in
a single folder, cyrus handles that well (even without a SSD), how would Dovecot
handle that?
I really think I want IMAP so that I can read home email on my phone
more easily. Right now it's purely text based, which is awesome over
a simple SSH connection, but getting more and more difficult as more
and more images are sent in emails, and links to emails, etc.
I absolutly require IMAP so that I can access the same mail from multiple
devices and keep it stored on the server.
I haven't found an android imap client I'm happy with yet, let alone anything
that would be sane to point at my mail volume
David Lang
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