[kwlug-disc] Canadian hosted email providers

[Bob Jonkman]

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Paul comments:
> I find it hard to believe that nobody else on the list runs into
> these kinds of Canadian hosting requirements.

Any place I've worked that had such a requirement was large enough to
be able to afford infrastructure and dedicated staff to host the
e-mail themselves.

I suspect that the requirements of non-profit (or even no-money) and
off-site Canadian hosting are incompatible.

- --Bob.


On 2017-02-15 01:09 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> 
> As others have noted, the goal is to get email as a service, not
> get raw resources with which somebody (not me!) can babysit an
> email server themselves.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that nobody else on the list runs into
> these kinds of Canadian hosting requirements.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 02:28:25AM +0000, Chamunks wrote:
>> There are ways to get email to not bounce you just need to do a
>> literal tonne of reading. The things that I don't understand is
>> why you always need so many services to get email going in the
>> first place.
>> 
>> There is a good solution I found called mail in a box 
>> https://mailinabox.email/ but it forces you to run your own DNS
>> server which I'm not okay with that's too risky running your own
>> DNS in my mind I would prefer it to let me have the option to use
>> Cloudflare or something.
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017, 4:54 PM Mark Steffen
>> <rmarksteffen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Paul, I can get you a dedicated server or VM/VPS for the
>>> working centre. Feel free to message me off-list if interested.
>>> Hosted in town.


Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Tue Feb 14 14:38:14 EST 2017
> Are there any good, reliable Canadian email providers that host
> their machines (physical and/or virtual) on Canadian soil? (I
> understand that this is no guarantee that traffic is not routed
> through the USA.)
> 
> This is for a nonprofit (not The Working Centre) that currently
> hosts its mail through Google. No doubt gratis is preferable for
> them, but I think paid ought to be an option as well.
> 
> Although my 1998 self would punch me in the face for saying this,
> I suggested that the gratis nonprofit tier of Office 365 might be a
> good fit. This is effectively hosted Exchange, and supposedly you
> can request that Microsoft only use Canadian data centres for your
> data. This is the standard that I would like to beat.
> 
> - Paul
> 
> -- http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
> 
> 



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