[kwlug-disc] Canadian hosted email providers

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Hosting your own email is far more than a VPS + apt-get + some config.
Setting up SPF, DKIM ...etc. is not trivial. I mean getting them
right.

More over, dealing with incoming spam is hell on earth. The sheer
volume is a problem, and how to get it down to an acceptable level is
a challenge. More challenging is how to prevent legit e-mails form
being rejected as spam.

More hellish is that your outgoing emails will be rejected by major
providers for no good reason.

Hence the quest for outsourcing.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Dekker <dekker at gratisinc.org> wrote:
> In about 20 min you can setup Iredmail on freebsd, hosted digital oceans
> toronto datacenter for 5$ / month.
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> On 02/14/17 14:38, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>
>> Are there any good, reliable Canadian email providers that host their
>> machines (physical and/or virtual) on Canadian soil? (I understand
>> that this is no guarantee that traffic is not routed through the USA.)
>>
>> This is for a nonprofit (not The Working Centre) that currently hosts
>> its mail through Google. No doubt gratis is preferable for them, but I
>> think paid ought to be an option as well.
>>
>> Although my 1998 self would punch me in the face for saying this, I
>> suggested that the gratis nonprofit tier of Office 365 might be a good
>> fit. This is effectively hosted Exchange, and supposedly you can
>> request that Microsoft only use Canadian data centres for your data.
>> This is the standard that I would like to beat.
>>
>> - Paul
>>
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