[ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations

[lnxgnome]

I'm doing something similar, running postfix (aide/fail2ban/rkhunter) on 
Linux at AWS as a mail forwarder. 'Free Tier' at the moment, but that 
should translate into about $65/yr afterwards.  I just made that 
transition from a $9/mo VPS last month, when that previous company 
stopped offering the service.  As a plus AWS gives me an off-prem 
jump-box for whatever my needs may be.

My mail service is elsewhere right now, but I plan to start hosting it 
again myself if/when I can get Comcast Biz to talk nicely to my 
firewall, and decide on how to filter spam.

-LnxGnome

On 2/20/17 11:33 AM, TxMoose wrote:
> I'd just like to add on to this:  I simply run my own email server out 
> of Digital Ocean.  The server is running postfix, nginx/php-fpm, 
> dovecot, and spamassassin, and I've been extremely happy with the 
> results.  As far as DNS, CloudFlare hosts DNS for free, is incredibly 
> reliable, and their customer service is top notch.
>
> Beyond that, their API looks to be quite easy to work against, and 
> they maintain most of their DNS records with a 120 second TTL.  If 
> you're using DynDNS because your ISP is flaky with your DHCP 
> reservation, then a simple script to curl icanhazip.com (run by an old 
> colleague of mine, and is trustworthy) and update CloudFlare via API 
> when a change occurs should be within reach.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Very respectfully,
> Kyle Brieden
>
> On 20-02-2017 10:06, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
>> I can't answer about the forwarding service as the ones I'm aware of
>> charge significantly more than $40/year.  However, I as curious what
>> you meant by DNS hosting.
>>
>> If you're running your own DNS servers you can point your MX record to
>> any provider that allows you to do so.   That is to say you can
>> control your own DNS even if you're using external mail hosting and/or
>> web hosting and I highly recommend you do or at least do your own DNS
>> registration.
>>
>> Here we do a fair number of acquisitions and have run across "hosting"
>> providers that did the original domain registration and take the
>> attitude they rather than the client own the domain.   Since they did
>> the registration ICANN considers them the owners so you end up having
>> to pay them to allow the registration transfer to your ownership OR
>> sue them with the latter meaning you're going to be down for some
>> time.  If you own the registration you can change which DNS servers
>> you point at any time so that you can also change MX and web addresses
>> without such hosting providers blocking you.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Tim Watts
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 10:25 AM
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: [ale] [OT] email forwarding service recommendations
>>
>> Anyone use an email forwarding service?  I'm looking for one in the
>> $40/yr range (or less).  DuoCircle/DynDNS is nearly doubling their
>> price so I'm saying Buhbye.  Plus their performance has been spotty.
>> This is for light volume personal use not a business thing. Don't
>> want to switch DNS hosting at this point.
>>
>>
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