Re: [PLUG] So, That's it for Thunderbird

[David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>]

On 7/8/12 12:22 PM, Julien Vehent wrote:
> Certainly not what a Linux Geek would do.
I'm a Linux geek, but I gave up running my own MX environment about five 
years ago. Wasn't worth the time/hassle, and gmail/google apps has 
superior spam filter and functionality than I care to support. Plus it's 
free, so that makes it even more appealing. I think I've had maybe an 
hour or two of outages in the last five years, if that.

> Think more along the line of DIY postfix + dovecot. Some antispam 
> (dspam is great, postscreen too). Any MUA (roundcube, mutt, 
> thunderbird). And a MX record that points to your machine.
Presumably you are paying for a machine/VM/whatever somewhere with a 
static-ish IP address and inbound port 25 open?
> Nothing hard. And definitely better than letting google (and others) 
> read your emails.

You know email is unencrypted right? Unless you are using PGP/GPG or 
some other encryption tool, just assume everyone is reading it anyway.

David
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