but no thanks I had been running Katharion for mail filtering for several months which worked ok, but if I was going to outsource the mail, I wanted an integrated solution), and the ability to increase a mailbox allocation for an individual user by purchasing more user accounts and allocating their mailbox allowance to the existing users. Mailtrust’s rep suggested that I might want to look into an external spam filtering solution if I wanted more control. Fusemail has more features, and the deciding factors (in Fusemail’s favor) were the ability to adjust the spam filtering (Mailtrust only has “on” or “off” options which is a bit scary — if the filtering is too stringent or too lenient, there’d be nothing that could be done about it. Fusemail and Mailtrust quickly bubbled to the top. Once I started considering outsourcing email an option, I started evaluating various services. I’m the only person tending to it and, say, if I’m on a vacation and the mail goes down, it would not be good. So I’ve been looking forward getting rid of Exchange, and migrating to Postfix/Dovecot system until, again, I started thinking that perhaps it’s not worth the stress to run an internal mail server. But why should it be? Qmail or Postfix run quite well on a Linux/*BSD server with Apache, MySQL, BIND. Meanwhile, my employer’s email has been running on Exchange for several years, starting preceding my time with the company. It has been a grief, though I’m sure it’s partially due to the fact that the the mail server is also the domain controller of a small office LAN. I was going to move the qmail system to Postfix before I started thinking about outsourcing the whole thing to save time). Over last several weeks I’ve gradually externalized both my own and my employer’s mail systems from internal servers to an outsourced service. My own mail has been running for years on qmail on FreeBSD. It’s worked well, but the age of my own server has become a growing concern, and in general in event of a system failure mail would not flow – that’s not good, and nobody’s going to fix it if I’m out of town. So paying couple of bucks per month per mailbox is—at least in theory—worth it to not have to stress over mail system (even though I’ve found Postfix/Dovecot really interesting and actually quite pleasant to configure.
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