[svlug] My escape from Kmail is featured in the 2/2012 issue of Linux Productivity Magazine

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012, at 12:25 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Raj Shekhar (rajlist at rajshekhar.net):
> 
> > Kudos on not just succumbing and putting your email on gmail.  This blog
> > post from Herald Welte sums up what I feel about people who host their
> > own site, but not their own
> > email. <http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2011/06/11/#20110611-gmail_and_co>
> 
> Running your own MTA is not that difficult.  (Steve Litt's gibe
> notwithstanding, there are MTAs other than Sendmail.)  As I said, the
> extra hurdle in 2012, that was not present when I and innumerable other
> people, unaware that we weren't supposed to be able to do it, did it
> with no difficulty whatsoever in earlier decades, is antispam.

I used to run my own mail server, but anti-spam was becoming somewhat of
an uphill battle.  Also, I was a bit annoyed having the reliability of
my e-mail depend on the reliability of machines that I was managing on
my own time.  (In this case, on my home internet connection as well.) 
While I could have just migrated up to the co-lo server I was using at
the time, I to decided to just outsource it.  That way someone would be
keeping up with anti-spam and availability of my e-mail as their job.

Of course not wanting to "give it all to Google" (like pretty much
everyone else I knew), I went with another provider that I actually pay
for, and their motivation to support me is not based on selling ads on
top of my e-mail experience.  (It also helped that they were running a
similar software stack to what I was running myself, so all my filter
configurations migrated nicely.)

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 Derek Konigsberg
 dkonigsberg at logicprobe.org
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