[svlug] Domain over multiple sites...

[Michael Robinson]

On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 12:32 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
>    as far as email goes I let Google handle the hard part.
> 
>    My MX record is set to go to Google.
> 
>    The email is then fetched (fetchmail) from Google and stored and my 
> IMAP server (Dovecot). This way Google also acts as a backup of my email 
> (I set it to keep everything).
> 
>    Also using Google SMTP server to send email.
> 
>    This way I don't have to worry about my server staying up 100%, 
> recipients thinking my mail is spam (which sometime happens if you send 
> it from your computer) etc. You also get Google spam filtering (if you 
> want to of course).
> 
>    You need Google apps account for this which is usually not free 
> anymore but there is a way to get it for free, see (it's all up and up, 
> no tricks involved):
> 
>  
> http://lifehacker.com/5967336/use-google-app-engine-to-get-google-apps-for-your-domain-for-free
> 
> 	erik

I'm afraid you've missed what I'm saying Erik.  I want to use my own
domain name for email.  I want to stay with Eskimo North.  I don't feel
comfortable running everything through google where google is becoming a
monopoly.  Google data mines which makes me very uncomfortable.  Eskimo
spools email for me, but there's no way to access those messages when
I'm down even if I have alternate ways of getting online.  To make
matters worse, it's possible beyond email that my DSL hosted web site 
is getting hit too hard causing denial of service.  I'm not sure if this
is the case, I was down for a few days and had a backlog of email which
would also cause service issues.  Guess I'll have to see what happens in
the near future.

As far as tricks, my meaning was not illegal but more in the technical
sense.  High availability of service is an advanced topic after all.