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

[Akkana Peck]

Rick Moen writes:
> 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.

I agree with both of you, BUT ...

The biggest problem I found with running my own MTA on a home server
was when I'd find myself out of town, and suddenly the server is
unreachable. Did the DSL go down and the provider needs a phone call?
Does the DSL modem just need a power cycle? (Happens pretty regularly.)
Is there a power failure at home? Did some package from a recent
security update hork networking? (Happened twice, once with bind9,
once with perl -- and no, we weren't pulling updates while we were
away; these were from manual updates a day before we left that
turned out to have delayed effects.)

Running an MTA isn't that hard. What's hard is debugging network
failures when you're not physically there and can't ssh in.
I finally gave up and moved to an ISP. (Not gmail.)

	...Akkana