Comments on: 3 cheers for a working Exim config

By: Joey

Joey — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:36:16 +0000

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.

By: Jay Tuley

Jay Tuley — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 03:52:43 +0000

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

By: Matt Ronge

Matt Ronge — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:06:22 +0000

Is all your e-mail hosted if your VPS yet?