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Google Apps is a good way to go, but personally I prefer Dovecot and Postfix for my email servers.

• jrockway 17y ago
  I agree -- maintaining your own email server is no harder than maintaining a web server (or anything else). The default configuration of exim that comes with Debian works well enough for me. (Although I did need to tweak it to add spam filtering and support for my "legacy" qmail addresses.) I also buy DynDNS' backup MX service. That way, if I fuck up my server, I will get my mail as soon as the server is back up (instead of whenever the sending server decides to resend it, which could be never).
  • oomkiller 17y ago
    I disagree that it's as easy as Nginx or Apache (webservers), but with Google, there are treasure troves of information about doing it yourself.
  • weaksauce 17y ago
    Great tip on the DynDNS backup service! Have you noticed any downtime or caveats from this service?