From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:25:53 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run? In-Reply-To: References: <20170920162502.GN25650@mcvoy.com> <20170920175714.6wbik7z7auw73ihu@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Message-ID: <20170920192553.6t5vobzybqzeyjh4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> On 2017-09-20 14:22, William Pechter wrote: >> exim on a VPS. Currently it is a linode running debian but I will >> have to find an outlet that supports BSD before systemd becomes >> unavoidable on debian, which I'm afraid is only a matter of time. > Digital Ocean does FreeBSD for me. My mail hosting costs me $5 per > month. Using postfix and zfs... I try to choose my words carefully, and here I wrote "supports" on purpose even though it is a much overused word. Linode will let me run FreeBSD, no problem, but they will not support it. That means, for example, no backups. So when you write that DO "does" FreeBSD, how far do they go on the support scale? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.