[vox-tech] How many people run their own mail server?

[Brian E. Lavender]

I have been running using procmail for quite some time and mbox. I find that
once I figure out how to do something, I often stop exploring. But, I have
not run imap and it seems that you really need Maildir to run imap. 

I found an Exim filter that also has a sieve counterpart for filtering
mailing list email. I am also trying Maildir. I have to say that
mbox is great for archiving messages. gzip the file and your
done.

https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/MailFilteringTips


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 07:05:54AM -0700, Marc Elliot Hall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:52:25PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> > I am curious how many people run their own mail server these days? 
> > 
> > It seems like most have taken to Gmail. 
> > 
> > brian
> 
> I'm one of the old-school holdouts, I guess: still running my own public-facing servers at home.
> 
> Specs on my primary:
> 
> 	Debian Stable on a physical two-socket, two-core-per-socket Xeon platform
> 	Postfix
> 	Spamassassin
> 	Dovecot
> 	Apache HTTPD
> 
> Static IP and so forth on business-class cable. 
> 
> Over more than ten years I've managed to avoid significant unscheduled downtime (even through moves from California, to Missouri, and back to Nevada) by keeping everything on UPSes -- with one three-day exception when an ice storm took out power to half of Saint Louis. Now I have a backup VPS on warm standby in case that happens here in Vegas. Further back, I had a *lot* of growing pains, though. 
> 
> 
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