3 cheers for a working Exim config
When I moved http://www.joeyhagedorn.com to the new server, I thought I had the site working perfectly. And the website was, but with the best of intentions, I thought “Joey, we can delay configuration of Exim until later, when I’m ready to start handling my own mail.” This was stupid. The comments come through e-mail! Anyway, Exim has been configured, comments are restored, and I apologize for the short service interruption in saneness of my website.
Is all your e-mail hosted if your VPS yet?
Comment by Matt Ronge — December 20, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
What i found very useful on my VPS was to sign up for gmail for domains and use ssmtp to send any out going mail from my server through my gmail for domains. That way i don’t have to worry about running an smtp server, possibly accidentally running an open really, not to mention MTAs tend to big on vulnerabilities so i don’t have to worry about it. In addition i get a really nice webmail, POP, spam filtering, and get to reclaim the memory used for an MTA and put it towards my memory hogging ruby. Only downside there is no IMAP, which some might call a downside, i don’t, good riddance ;-P
Comment by Jay Tuley — December 20, 2006 @ 9:52 pm
While I haven’t moved all my mail over to the VPS yet, I think it is worth it to run a real MTA in my situation. As I move my mail there in the next year, I do plan on moving ALL my mail to IMAP (scary I know, but maybe Kiwi will make support on OS X quite robust). I have long dreamed of having a secure store for all my mail, somewhere less volatile than my laptop’s local hard disk. As I move from site to site, it would be nice to have a reliable outgoing SMTP server, which would send all of my mail, no matter where I connect from, and which from-address I’m using. Besides, the MTA can be configured to run on demand, which I think will not cause huge memory problems long term.
Comment by Joey — December 20, 2006 @ 11:36 pm