[svlug] Domain over multiple sites...

[Erik Steffl]

On 12/13/2014 03:05 PM, Michael Robinson wrote:
> 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

   pretty sure I got what you want, I am offering what I am doing given 
that I have very similar requirements. Not exactly same so it might not 
be what you want, just posted it here since I think it might help (you 
or others with similar requirements)

> domain name for email.  I want to stay with Eskimo North.  I don't feel

   exactly, you could stay with whatever domain you want, just use MX 
record to let Google handle the email. I.e. it would work kinda like 
Eskimo spooler but better (i.e you can also get the email from there 
using gmail.com web interface, pretty good spam filtering, no denial of 
service on your host (cause you pull from google via IMAP), they spool 
virtually unlimited amount of data etc.)

> comfortable running everything through google where google is becoming a
> monopoly.  Google data mines which makes me very uncomfortable.  Eskimo

   if that's a hard requirement that is definitely a deal breaker so I 
guess my solution is not for you,

> 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.

   yeah, I just meant for that specific case, Goole does not really have 
Gogole Apps free accounts anymore except for that special case described 
in the link.

   but yes, high availability is really hard, that's why I let Google 
handle it :) Except of your dislike for Google data mining it fulfils 
all your other requirements,

   The other option is to figure out whether Eskimo can keep data for 
you on their servers and you getting it from them using IMAP, that would 
solve denial of service problem as well as access (via IMAP client) in 
case your server is down. (just checked, they offer email service with 
IMAP access so maybe you could use that)

	erik