Why you should let us look after your mail server

  1. Spam
  2. Spam
  3. Spam
  4. Spam
  5. Spam
  6. Spam
  7. Spam
  8. Spam
  9. Backups
  10. Some trade-offs

Tags: email, spam

Comments

25 April 2008 - 7:35pm — Intern (GreenNet)

So should we recommend a local Linux based mail server?

No! The problems are the same. And the answer stays the same. Ask Ian why.

29 April 2008 - 4:54pm — Anna (GreenNet)

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Trade-offs on switching from an Exchange Server..

..are not as obvious as they used to be. Good Thunderbird plugins are now available for running networked calendars and having a shared address book, so looks like excuses for keeping an Exchange server are running out.

15 September 2008 - 11:39am — The Hip Zone (not verified)

All MS products sucks,

All MS products sucks, believe me, Sooner or Later, they are going to vanish from this planet.

17 September 2008 - 9:19am — Anonymous (not verified)

All MS products suck???

Wow, a well thought out and clearly structured contribution to the debate on the pros and cons of using MIcrosoft products. MS is arguably the most successful company in the world, certainly one of the most profitable. They did that by selling products to large numbers of people and organisations from the smallest to the largest all around the world. So either all these people are wrong and you are right or, unbelievable I know, you just may be talking complete rubbish.

17 December 2008 - 6:42pm — Anonymous (not verified)

It's not the case that all

It's not the case that all users of MS products chose to use MS Exchange. SO they're neither wrong nor right. The problem is that people think it's easier and more comfortable to run an office based mail server and in most cases they chose Exchange. The reality is that if that server runs without any gateway and is directly accesible for mail delievery the users end up with massive spam problems. That's why ISPs employ sysadmins and other people to fight spam. Also, often these local mail servers are not configured correctly. Again, there's a reason why ISPs employ people...

6 October 2008 - 4:17am — Anonymous (not verified)

>>So should we recommend a

>>So should we recommend a local Linux based mail server? >>No! The problems are the same. And the answer stays the same. Ask Ian why. Whos ian?

8 October 2008 - 5:42pm — gold farming (not verified)

Thanks

While configuring a Postfix mail server to relay inbound email from the outside world to a Microsoft Exchange server inside a customer's network, we wanted to populate the Postfix "relay_recipients" table with all the valid internal users. Though it's possible to just "relay everything", it means that the Postfix server will accept delivery for invalid accounts and then have them be refused by Exchange. This puts the burden of generating a bounce email onto Postfix.

17 December 2008 - 6:35pm — Anonymous (not verified)

use recipient verification

our you could use recipient verification for your domain in postfix.

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