[ale] Email system

[Bob Toxen]

I would run from GoDaddy almost as fast as I'd run from Network
Solutions!

I've had nothing but great experience with enom.com.  (They use Linux
DNS servers and are based in Redmond, WA which is added satisfaction.)

For email, I've found that this year both Gmail and Yahoo have gotten
overly aggressive with their spam filtering (with no easy way for the
recipient to white list senders) and that caused me GREAT inconvenience
when sending drafts of my article to my editor at his Gmail account
and to others.


*** Puts on salesman hat ***

My own Enterprise-grade spam and virus filter does a better job than
Barracuda and at a much smaller cost.  I do all the configuration and
maintenance (except that a customer easily can add email addresses to
be white listed).  It can be either on a dedicated box in front of any
email system (even the delightful Exchange) or run on a Linux box that
also hosts an email server and anything else.

Bob Toxen
bob at verysecurelinux.com               [Please use for email to me]
http://www.verysecurelinux.com        [Network&Linux security consulting]
http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com [My book:"Real World Linux Security 2/e"]
Quality Linux & UNIX security and SysAdmin & software consulting since 1990.
Quality spam and virus filters.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:52:09PM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote: > I'm in the
need to figure out a new method of email, that does no > include Exchange.
> > Currently I use CentOS to fetch all our our mail from our provider >
and store locally.  Users then use IMAPS and SMTP to receive and > send.
> > We get hammered with Spam that has nasty attachments.   One user >
asked me what we could do about this.  My thought is that I'm going >
to have to install a real commercial SPAM firewall.  I also looked
> at Google business email.  My options currently are to look at >
purchasing a Baracuda appliance to cut down on the crap or use > Google
email services.  > > With the Baracuda I'll stop fetching mail from the
provider and > smiply chane our DNS MX records to send mail directly.
I'm not sure > how it will feed email to my mail system or if it is the
IMAP/SMTP > server.  Anyone use one of these devices?  > > Chris >

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