<p>Email. Is. Not. Private.</p>
<p>It does not matter who is hosting it. Unless you are using openpgp or s/mime, it ain't private. Period.</p>
<p>--<br>
Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br>
That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2011 9:54 AM, "Tim Watts" <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Thanks Chuck. Yeah, I'm getting bearish on the whole "home mail server"<br>
> idea. It's much more involved than a web server and seems to require<br>> redundancy to be viable.<br>> <br>> I may look at what aSmallOrange.com has to offer, as Paul suggested. The<br>> unmovable requirement for me is keeping my email address. Whether that's<br>
> hosting mail on my own VPS, using another mail hosting service or<br>> finding a more reliable forwarder doesn't really matter to me. But the<br>> VPS sounds like the more interesting approach. It has to be cheap<br>
> though. I'm paying $40/yr now for the forwarding and I'd really rather<br>> not go above that.<br>> <br>> Privacy is important to me as well -- more on principle than anything.<br>> In that regard my confidence in google is pretty low.<br>
> <br>> <br>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 06:38 -0500, Chuck Peters wrote:<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Tim Watts <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>>> I'm losing confidence in the mail forwarding service I use and<br>>> am<br>>> thinking of dropping it. This may be just the excuse for me to<br>>> set up my<br>
>> own mail server at home, which is a project I've wanted to do<br>>> for a long<br>>> time. But here's the thing: I don't have a static IP address.<br>>> Would this<br>
>> be a horribly foolish thing to embark on if I don't?<br>>> <br>>> Friends don't let friends host mail servers on dynamic DNS! You might<br>>> get it to work, but it will bite you when you don't have time to deal<br>
>> with it and you will lose mail.<br>>> <br>>> If it isn't too much network transfer I could host it from my linode<br>>> VPS provided you agree not to spam people or do those annoying<br>>> forwards so many people do... And I am sure others on the list could<br>
>> do it as well. How much mail transfer per month do you have? <br>>> <br>>> You can also use Google Apps Partner Edition to host it for free, and<br>>> it has quite a good web interface and great spam filtering. We use it<br>
>> for StarrySkies.net mail and have a number of people using it. And I<br>>> also have my dear old mom using it and I have provided her mail as<br>>> well as others since 95/96. If we were not running mailman and<br>
>> wordpress I would consider not running mail servers anymore and host<br>>> it all at Google, the service is that good.<br>>> <br>>> It appears you are using dyndns to forward mail to your<br>>> Mindspring/Earthlink DSL, aka dynamic IP. It would work better to<br>
>> host it on Google or a VPS and use a client to download the mail,<br>>> getmail4 to your local machine or your regular client Evolution. And<br>>> continue to send out mail through Earthlink like you are now, through<br>
>> a properly configured VPS or Google.<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Chuck<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> Ale mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br>
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