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Re: [Sheflug] Mail servers
> Hi all,
>
> For a variety of reasons I'm looking into getting my own domain. I
> plan to use it principally for email, I'm not really interested in web
> space or much else at the moment, just a few email addresses.
>
> Doing this cheaply seems problematic. Has anyone tried to do this? At
> one end I might be able to run a mail server at home and just register
> the domain, but what happens when my ADSL is down?. At the other end
> is renting a VM from somebody from like bytemark for £15 a month,
> which is not cheap.
My preferred option, which bypasses the need for managing servers &
keeping your computer on 24 hrs a day, but gives up a certain amount
of freedom for that simplicity, is the Google Apps for domain (
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html ). For free you
get up to 50 accounts on a domain name (with webmail / POP3 / IMAP
access), plus docs, calendar, etc.
As I said, you give up quite a bit of control / freedom (in certain
ways), but gain a lot of convenience.
Davo
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