[Chester LUG] Mail servers

[Les Pritchard]

Yes DigitalOcean are well worth a look. I've had some VPSs with them for a
while now and never had any issues. I used to host my mailserver via
broadband, which was fine but now with prices that low it's cheaper than
Google or Office 365.

On 26 November 2014 at 20:24, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:

> I can certainly understand paying for a solution (shifting responsibility,
> maintenance, costs, etc), but I’m getting to the point where I think I
> should be doing it my self!
>
> You too can have an army of server, Stuart! Just use DigitalOcean! About
> £3/month for a decent, 512MB VM with 1TB of traffic. Throw £30/month at an
> account per month and that’s a nice little farm :)
>
>
> On 26 Nov 2014, at 20:21, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> But Les, don't you have an entire farm of redundant servers!
>
> On 26 November 2014 at 20:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've used a combination of my own services and Google. Like Mike says,
>> the Google / Office 365 services are just so easy to use. For my own
>> servers I've used a variety of systems over the years including a good old
>> Sendmail server. A few years back I looked at all the 'Exchange
>> alternatives' available as I'd rather not have to build it all myself,
>> especially the Activesync (push email) services. After trying out quite a
>> few, I ended up with Axigen. It is a commercial product, but it catered for
>> my main needs of IMAP and push email. It's a simple out of the box install.
>>
>> Les
>>
>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:53, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Meh, will take another luck. I was just bein lazy lol
>>>
>>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:52, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That doesn’t sound right. I use Mail in OSX, and K-9 on Android. I did
>>>> used to use the official GMail app on Android until recently (I wanted
>>>> integrated PGP support), and that worked fined for offline/disconnected
>>>> email viewing (for previously downloaded items, obviously).
>>>>
>>>> It’s basically IMAP, mate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:50, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Maybe.  So with Gmail for biz, is there any way to keep your mail on an
>>>> ipad. With the personal account, the Gmail app only seems to store email
>>>> when it is has Wifi. It may be me, but I haven't had time to faff around.
>>>>
>>>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:46, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I want to bring up my own eventually, but for now, Google Apps for
>>>>> business. I pay about £20/month for two mail accounts and about 200GB of
>>>>> storage.
>>>>>
>>>>> It’s such a pain, in a way, how convenient these services are because
>>>>> it makes them difficult to leave afterwards. However I want to take more
>>>>> control of my data, so I will switch eventually.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you’re up for it, Stuart, we could setup a shared infrastructure?
>>>>>
>>>>> - M
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:41, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am just looking at business class email that I can attach a domain
>>>>> too. I just wondered what most people are doing. Running your own, O365 ?
>>>>> Gmail for biz ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Stuart
>>>>>
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