[kwlug-disc] Canadian hosted email providers

[Mark Steffen]

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

Just as an FYI- I'm happy to offer hosting resources for in-need
non-profits/service groups at no charge (though reciprocal link or
something on their website would certainly be appreciated it wouldn't be a
condition), and my racks are at a local datacentre in Kitchener.  I don't
have a formal policy on it so requests are reviewed on a case by case basis
(for example, some non-profits pay their executives six figure salaries;
these non-profits can afford to pay for their hosting :-)

*Mark Steffen*
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:31 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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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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>
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