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Can you _send_ emails from your ADSL line? Mine are rejected since I have a semi-dynamic IP address.
Most ISPs will let you smarthost out via their upstream mail server.
I took "the pragmatic UNIX way" about 15 years ago with email. It works. I've not had to change it and don't feel compelled to bother changing it. I host my own mail server. It's not hard regardless of the platform you use. I use debian+postfix+mutt as it pretty much works out of the box. I've changed perhaps two lines of postfix configuration (to set up maildir) and added a couple of lines to my muttrc to pick up ma…
"My contacts list is a text file called contacts.txt. Works on anything. Can be grepped. My calendar is a text file called cal.txt. Works on anything. Can be grepped." I really like the sound of that. Can you elaborate a bit on the format, or provide a couple of sample lines from each?
contacts.txt - in order of surname, firstname
Surname, FirstName, Primary telephone number with code, Email address so:
Joe, Bloggs, 02033345545, joe@bloggs.com
cal.txt - latest dates at top of file:
2012/02/02 16:00+ What to do # time specific event
2012/03/03 --:-- Someone's birthday # all day event
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It's really easy to install SpamAssassin and point your MTA at it. Even the default configuration is highly effective.
It's still a service which you have to maintain and there's constant config & upgrading required since some spammers are smart enough to test their messages with it first. I've run SA professionally for modest (low hundreds) of users. It works reasonably well but it's a job and I'm not paid to do it personally.
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One could always mooch off of Gmail's spam filtering... Use SpamAssassin in conjunction with a gmail account that is only used as an attempt to attract as much spam as possible. Then just download the spam folder over IMAP and use it to teach SpamAssassin...
Respectfully, no. The primary issue in spam filtering is not that we don't have training corpora, it's that spammers are very efficient at finding holes in your system. One example is when the Hotmail team first enabled keyword filtering. When the spammers found out experimentally, they began injecting HTML comment tags into high-weighted words like "free", breaking the model. When the Hotmail team took steps to comb…
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Would you pay for this? For the last 3 years I've been creating a platform for this kind of servers for a small spanish ISP. It has grown to 15 Openvz hosts. A rails app connects to the host to create the virtual machine. Centos is installed and configured with puppet. A rails app is installed in every server and used to configure the accounts, domains, etc. Postfix, Cyrus, IMAPS, SMTPS, POP3S, HTTPS, Sieve for filte…
You only have ~100 email accounts per server?
On our shared mail system we have about 40k accounts in 2 cyrus servers (with 2 more for HA)
You team up with some friends, people you know and trust, and you share the administrative and financial effort
You use a local, small Internet service company rather than one of the big entities.
I get the OP's point, and hope I never have to eat my own words, but the reasons to go through all the hassle of moving out of google et al aren't all that compelling imo.
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Oh, right, I tried that too, they said they've discontinued that service years ago.
If you ISP provides SMTP for their e-mail (almost all do), then barring outbound From address filters, you can set up your SMTP server to treat the customer facing mail server as a smarthost. The ISP doesn't need to do anything specific to support it.
1. Running a mail server is an unbelievable pain in the rear from an IT perspective. Note that by "mail server" I mean a good setup with spam filtration, webmail, SMTPS, IMAPS, etc. 2. Really good rich webmail. I personally use Mac Mail.app most of the time, but having that rich webmail is nice. 3. Filters mail at the server side. 4. Very good spam filtering... I post my gmail addresses on web pages with no obfuscati…
I don't know why this should happen with IMAP (it is possible to move messages from one folder to another atomically) but it did.
1. Running a mail server is an unbelievable pain in the rear from an IT perspective. Note that by "mail server" I mean a good setup with spam filtration, webmail, SMTPS, IMAPS, etc. 2. Really good rich webmail. I personally use Mac Mail.app most of the time, but having that rich webmail is nice. 3. Filters mail at the server side. 4. Very good spam filtering... I post my gmail addresses on web pages with no obfuscati…
I disagree on most points... 1. It takes a few hours to set up, sure, but it isn't difficult – setting up a mail server on a *nix box isn't exactly uncharted territory, every possible aspect of it is documented to death on the web. And once it's up and running it takes practically no effort to maintain. Yes, even with spam filtering that keeps my inbox spam free, despite my address having been used in several public…
When you work parttime as a consultant or when you just meet with some potential customers/investors/cofounders/whomever you often need to use THEIR infrastructure. So what then? Do you imagine that you'd be unable to get an email from the people you're talking on the spot just because you need to tunnel somehow to your server? Bit weird..
One option is to always use own mobile connection, but still there are places where there's no carrier (like some server rooms), or you have to use customer's intranet at the same time you're relying on what's in your emails..