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As usual, it is a financial one. Do you have ~30,000 EUR / year for skilled admin? Plus ~20,000 EUR / year for hardware and other running costs? If you do, you
by pacija 5y ago
As usual, it is a financial one.
Do you have ~30,000 EUR / year for skilled admin? Plus ~20,000 EUR / year for hardware and other running costs? If you do, you can have your emails safely and reliably exchanged from your basement. If you don't, you can rent whatever on the 'net that suits your budget.
- adtac 5y agoIt absolutely doesn't cost 20k EUR/yr in hardware to run a email server, but the time sink is ridiculous.
- vbezhenar 5y agoIn my experience the time sink is high when you're setting it up. Then it's mostly zero. Though I'm not sure I'd recommend to invest into it. Back in the days that unix knowledge was valuable and setting up your own e-mail was a good way to learn thing or two. These days those skills are useless for most people, so I'd say use hosted mail and spend that time learning some more valuable skills.
- fguard 5y agoI think those numbers are too high. Even if not, companies like Airbus have that money and are using G-Suite. So Google has all corporate information (does the swamp redirect some of it to Boeing?).
- dorfsmay 5y agoThis is not true. Regardless of how secure and properly setup your server is: Outlook blocks anybody that does not send enough mail, even if you've never sent any spam and are on a clean block. They're happy to let their users to send you spam, but ironically they still block you when you you try to report it to abuse. The good thing is they block you, so the email bounced and you know it wasn't delivered. Gmail classify messages to a user who has never communicated with you before as spam. This is silent, so you never really know if an email to a Gmail box has been filtered out as spam or not. Their abuse inbox accepts messages but I'm not sure they do anything with it. Basically, email has been hijacked by two companies.