My Next Thing to Learn: Email Hosting
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What I'm wondering, why does anyone care about hosting their own email anymore? Isn't the push to move everything to one of the big players and get it out of your local network?
I suppose there are regulation requirements that might keep some from doing this, but I wouldn't expect that to effect the SMB.
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@Dashrender This is for learning
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@Dashrender Depends on what types of SMBs. I've never been able to host email externally due to government regulations.
But I'm guessing this is a cloudatcost thing.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@Dashrender This is for learning
I did assume as much, but the question still stands, why learn something like this unless your goal is to go work for an email hosting company?
Wouldn't the learning time be better spent on something else?
Perhaps my thinking is completely off base?
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So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?
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As someone who has dealt with Ensim and cPanel email/web hosting since 2003, I am DONE with hosting email. New clients will be asked to choose from O365 or Google Apps.
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@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.
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@Dashrender There are still plenty of people using on-site email hosting, especially when you get into the the regulatory and compliance stuff as well as many comapanies desire to stop some years from being able to access email (web mail, outlook and ActiveSync) due to FLSA laws as even if they do work without being told to, they can and should still be paid for it, then be reprimanded for doing work when they weren't supposed to. There's been some major lawsuits over things like that.
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@Aaron-Studer well...that's differnet. I like roundcube which is one of the packages that cPanel offers.
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.
Rackspace is just $2/user/month full price. Hard to justify anything else when that is enterprise and fully supported.
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Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.
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@coliver said:
Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.
I used to use it, It has some funky issues with folder syncing in the web interface vs imap or activesnyc. it doesn't always match.
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If you are looking to learn about email hosting, I'm with SAM... Zimbra has been the big open source email player for a long time. Free and very useful.
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What about this? Any downsides?
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.
Check out Zoho. It's completely free and you can use your domain name for email
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@Aaron-Studer said:
@technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.
I completely understand this, I see few solutions for this, Gmail or (much less desirable) use the email your ISP provides...
All that said, I do understand learning for learning sake.
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@coliver said:
Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.
That's what I get for not reading
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@coliver said:
Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.
I used to use it, It has some funky issues with folder syncing in the web interface vs imap or activesnyc. it doesn't always match.
I have never had an issue with Zoho
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@Aaron-Studer said:
So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?
You could probably go with Postfix.
This is an older article, but is it what you are trying to do? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-bsd-postfix-forward-email-to-another-account/
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@doyle.jack said:
@Aaron-Studer said:
So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?
You could probably go with Postfix.
I agree, for a pure SMTP Relay, Postfix is the best option. A Dev 1 will handle that just fine.
