[kwlug-disc] Canadian hosted email providers

[Mark Steffen]

Paul, I can get you a dedicated server or VM/VPS for the working centre.
Feel free to message me off-list if interested.  Hosted in town.

*Mark Steffen*
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On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:14 PM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote:

> On 14/02/17 03:01 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I build my company's mail server about ten years ago (or more), and have
> managed it since. The headaches that come with hosting mail are
> certainly non-trivial. If I didn't have such security concerns (nature
> of our client types), I'd offload email to a provider in a heartbeat.
> It's a right PITA.
>
>
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