A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver Explained further here: https://tvi.al/simple-mail-server-with-docker/ -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
On 2019-09-16 03:47 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver
Explained further here: https://tvi.al/simple-mail-server-with-docker/
I used to run my own IMAP mail server and used fetchmail to get my mail from Rogers and also their SMTP server. What will he be using to send/receive mail, if he doesn't have an email provider? I found running my own server too much bother, so I got my own domain, provided by Google, and use that. Works well. And since it's a paid account ($10 U.S./year) I don't get the ads etc. that free GMail accounts attract. It also gets me DNS for my domain, so I can have all my IPv6 addresses reachable by host name.
On 2019-09-16 3:47 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver
No calendaring? Microsoft sells o365 for a lot less than $25/mo. Even the online version of the office suite directly from office.com, with 1TB storage, custom domains, mobile device management, etc, etc., is about $7.40/mo CAD (the custom domains are $1/mo). FOSS Calendaring has always been a weak spot. I feel like all development stopped once Gmail appeared, and only got worse when Android became popular. -- Mike Kallies mike@kallies.ca 647-606-5442
On 9/18/19 7:04 AM, Mike Kallies via talk wrote:
On 2019-09-16 3:47 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
A colleague at work (in the US) found that his ISP was going to outsource his email to Microsoft and charge $25/month for that. He poked around, and found his own personal "outsourcing" in the form of the following... https://github.com/tomav/docker-mailserver
No calendaring?
Microsoft sells o365 for a lot less than $25/mo. Even the online version of the office suite directly from office.com, with 1TB storage, custom domains, mobile device management, etc, etc., is about $7.40/mo CAD (the custom domains are $1/mo).
FOSS Calendaring has always been a weak spot. I feel like all development stopped once Gmail appeared, and only got worse when Android became popular
Take a look at OpenXchange. It has a set of features similar to o365. It is not a small package to install and the OX guys have a mixed business model where the core software is open but some of the more desirable features are charged for. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||
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