From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:39:59 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Who is running their own mail server and what do you run? In-Reply-To: References: <20170920162502.GN25650@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 20 September 2017 at 12:46, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Larry McVoy wrote: > >> I tried running my own server on mcvoy.com but eventually gave up, the >> spam filtering was a non-ending task. >> > > I ran my own server for bsdimp.com and village.org form the early 90s > until 2009 or so. I switched to gmail when I was seriously looking at > dropping $10k for a server that had enough horse power to filter the > 50k-75k spam I was getting a month at that time. Switching to google was > easier and I didn't have to spend the $10k nor the 4 hours a week on the > care and feeding of the black lists, etc. > This is essentially what happened when I was working at Oberlin College. Around 2005-2006 we bought a dedicated appliance to handle spam (with around 5000 active email addresses at any given time, it was a lot of spam) but within less than a year it became completely overwhelmed and we needed to upgrade to a much more powerful and expensive machine. We switched to Google Apps very shortly afterward and it saved countless hours on the back end and provided a better experience to our users. Initially I wasn't particularly happy about the fact that we were no longer directly in control of our mail, but the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks. -Henry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: