[kwlug-disc] Canadian hosted email providers

[Digimer]

On 14/02/17 03:01 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Hosting your own email is far more than a VPS + apt-get + some config.
> Setting up SPF, DKIM ...etc. is not trivial. I mean getting them
> right.
> 
> More over, dealing with incoming spam is hell on earth. The sheer
> volume is a problem, and how to get it down to an acceptable level is
> a challenge. More challenging is how to prevent legit e-mails form
> being rejected as spam.
> 
> More hellish is that your outgoing emails will be rejected by major
> providers for no good reason.
> 
> Hence the quest for outsourcing.

I build my company's mail server about ten years ago (or more), and have
managed it since. The headaches that come with hosting mail are
certainly non-trivial. If I didn't have such security concerns (nature
of our client types), I'd offload email to a provider in a heartbeat.
It's a right PITA.


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