[Chester LUG] Mail servers

Wed Nov 26 20:48:48 UTC 2014

And with what I’m going demonstrate tomorrow night, you’ll see a mail server is an easy task for Ansible.

> On 26 Nov 2014, at 20:39, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On 26 November 2014 at 20:24, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto: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!
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> 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 :)
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>> On 26 Nov 2014, at 20:21, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> But Les, don't you have an entire farm of redundant servers!
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>> On 26 November 2014 at 20:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com <mailto: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.
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>> Les
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>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:53, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Meh, will take another luck. I was just bein lazy lol
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>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:52, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto: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).
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>> It’s basically IMAP, mate.
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>>> On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:50, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> On 26 November 2014 at 19:46, Michael Crilly <michael at mcrilly.me <mailto: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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> If you’re up for it, Stuart, we could setup a shared infrastructure? 
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>>> - M
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>>>> On 26 Nov 2014, at 19:41, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com <mailto:stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Everyone,
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>>>> 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 ?
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>>>> Regards
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>>>> Stuart
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