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    My Next Thing to Learn: Email Hosting

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      A Former User last edited by scottalanmiller

      So I have a CentOS7 box, and I want to set it up for email.

      I understand linux, and how to install LAMP, but have no idea where to start with hosting email. Any suggestions?

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      • scottalanmiller
        scottalanmiller last edited by

        Zimbra. That's it. Go there, look nowhere else.

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          A Former User @Guest last edited by A Former User

          @Aaron-Studer said:

          So I have a CentOS7 box, and I want to set it up for email.

          I understand linux, and how to install LAMP, but have no idea where to start with hosting email. Any suggestions?

          SoGo is a drop in replacement for exchange with OpenChange and supports most features. http://www.sogo.nu/

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            A Former User last edited by

            Should I run Zimbra on it's own VM or can I run it on the LAMP server?

            What if I just want to forward mail to my gmail?

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            • Dashrender
              Dashrender last edited by

              What I'm wondering, why does anyone care about hosting their own email anymore? Isn't the push to move everything to one of the big players and get it out of your local network?

              I suppose there are regulation requirements that might keep some from doing this, but I wouldn't expect that to effect the SMB.

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                A Former User last edited by

                @Dashrender This is for learning 🙂

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                  A Former User @Dashrender last edited by

                  @Dashrender Depends on what types of SMBs. I've never been able to host email externally due to government regulations.

                  But I'm guessing this is a cloudatcost thing.

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                  • Dashrender
                    Dashrender @Guest last edited by

                    @Aaron-Studer said:

                    @Dashrender This is for learning 🙂

                    I did assume as much, but the question still stands, why learn something like this unless your goal is to go work for an email hosting company?

                    Wouldn't the learning time be better spent on something else?

                    Perhaps my thinking is completely off base?

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                      A Former User last edited by

                      So then let me pose a new question, how do I setup email forwarding so that any email sent to *@domain.com is forwarded to my gmail?

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                        technobabble last edited by

                        As someone who has dealt with Ensim and cPanel email/web hosting since 2003, I am DONE with hosting email. New clients will be asked to choose from O365 or Google Apps.

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                          A Former User @technobabble last edited by

                          @technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

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                            A Former User @Dashrender last edited by A Former User

                            @Dashrender There are still plenty of people using on-site email hosting, especially when you get into the the regulatory and compliance stuff as well as many comapanies desire to stop some years from being able to access email (web mail, outlook and ActiveSync) due to FLSA laws as even if they do work without being told to, they can and should still be paid for it, then be reprimanded for doing work when they weren't supposed to. There's been some major lawsuits over things like that.

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                              technobabble @Guest last edited by

                              @Aaron-Studer well...that's differnet. I like roundcube which is one of the packages that cPanel offers.

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                                scottalanmiller @Guest last edited by

                                @Aaron-Studer said:

                                @technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

                                Rackspace is just $2/user/month full price. Hard to justify anything else when that is enterprise and fully supported.

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                                • coliver
                                  coliver last edited by coliver

                                  Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.

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                                    A Former User @coliver last edited by

                                    @coliver said:

                                    Zoho has free mail for personal and business domains. I think up-to 5 or 10 accounts. That is what I'm using for my personal domains. They also have a really nice web interface which makes it even better.

                                    I used to use it, It has some funky issues with folder syncing in the web interface vs imap or activesnyc. it doesn't always match.

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                                    • Reid Cooper
                                      Reid Cooper last edited by

                                      If you are looking to learn about email hosting, I'm with SAM... Zimbra has been the big open source email player for a long time. Free and very useful.

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                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        What about this? Any downsides?

                                        http://linuxaria.com/pills/how-to-setup-postfix-to-forward-email-to-another-email-account-on-debianubuntu?lang=en

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                                        • IRJ
                                          IRJ @Guest last edited by

                                          @Aaron-Studer said:

                                          @technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

                                          Check out Zoho. It's completely free and you can use your domain name for email

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                                          • Dashrender
                                            Dashrender @Guest last edited by

                                            @Aaron-Studer said:

                                            @technobabble Agreed, but I am not paying for that just for my personal domain, not cost effective.

                                            I completely understand this, I see few solutions for this, Gmail or (much less desirable) use the email your ISP provides...

                                            All that said, I do understand learning for learning sake.

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