Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.
Open-source alternatives to GMail
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#13Maybe it "just works" but all of these projects feel ancient to me because of their stack despite being brand new. Sure as a user it doesn't matter but as the maintainer/administrator I just don't want to deal with it. Modphp? Yuck.
We don't always need to use the new new thing all the time but I can't shake the feeling that the same person who runs this is also rocking an unpached PHPMyAdmin and PHPMySQL.
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#14The are not real comparisons with Gmail with is a web-based client, an email server and a managed service. On this list, I believe at only Zimbra provides all of these options, but the article really only looks at the client. Having run my own email server for about 10 years (1996-2006), I eventually gave up due to the huge amount of work it took to stay secure, current with email server "policy" and deal with spam.…
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#15Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.
Re: Open-source alternatives to GMail
#16The are not real comparisons with Gmail with is a web-based client, an email server and a managed service. On this list, I believe at only Zimbra provides all of these options, but the article really only looks at the client. Having run my own email server for about 10 years (1996-2006), I eventually gave up due to the huge amount of work it took to stay secure, current with email server "policy" and deal with spam.…
(currently in development - looking to launch around November)
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#17Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.
I'm not sure how one could parallel this kind of behavior in a self-hosted mail solution.
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#19The are not real comparisons with Gmail with is a web-based client, an email server and a managed service. On this list, I believe at only Zimbra provides all of these options, but the article really only looks at the client. Having run my own email server for about 10 years (1996-2006), I eventually gave up due to the huge amount of work it took to stay secure, current with email server "policy" and deal with spam.…
Spam filtering techniques (and subsequent techniques for circumventing them) are constantly changing.
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#20Unfortunately this article neglects one of Gmail's strongest features: superb turnkey spam filtering. Anyone with an email address older than 5 years is going to be buried in spam thus will need spam filtering with a super low false positive rate.
Going through the hassle of setting up SPF and DKIM for my domain reduced the amount of spam I get quite a bit.