<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Ted W." <ted-lists@xy0.org><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 12, 2014 11:55:40 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] NUC vs. RPi mail server<br><div><br></div><div><br></div>I've been thinking on this very topic for a few weeks now myself. I'm <br>currently hosting my mail server on a super economy RackSpace cloud <br>instance that has the same specs (256MB RAM, 10GB disk, single proc) as <br>a RaspberryPi and it runs fine there. Granted, I can count the number of <br>spam messages I receive per month on one hand... A NUC sounds like <br>overkill IMO. If you think you more power to handle some additional <br>functionality, check out the BeagleBone Black or BananaPi. Both are just <br>slightly more expensive with much better processors and more RAM. I've <br>been interested in the BananaPi for some time as it's the same board as <br>the Model B RPi with a SATA controller, GigE, a better processor and <br>more RAM.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good advice there. I've migrated over time to outsourced email.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Earthlink</div><div>2. Self-hosting.</div><div>3. Self-hosting, but outsourcing sending of email (I need guaranteed delivery and no black list issues)</div><div>4. Outsourced sending and receiving to a Zimbra provider.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm very happy with #4. I have it configured so that mail received is sent to an outside server (mine). That</div><div>server sorts and stores them. That is our backup.</div></div></body></html>