[ale] AT&T, own mail server, alternatives

[Sean McNealy]

Google Apps will give you a very Gmail-like interface for 20 or so
accounts for free.  Lots of space, good spam filtering, and integrates
my domain with GoogleTalk/Jabber easily.

The down side is Google knows practically everything about my life.

-Sean
(sending from @gmail.com address since that's what I signed up to ALE
with, my @otherroute.net address is currently on Google Apps)

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Grady Harris <nolan.voight at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's the Slashdot story on FastMail.fm from yesterday that has me
> thinking more about it--I pretty much just use a web interface for
> mail these days, & AT&T ticked me off as badly as they did many when
> they switched their webmail over to Yahoo a while back--I already have
> a couple of Yahoo mail accounts & this just muddies things.
>
> I rent server space, but I'd rather not run a mail server on it--I
> don't feel sufficiently competent in security to keep it properly
> locked down.
>
> For low-volume mail accounts, personal & having to do with the web
> sites I run, is there any advantage to running my own mail server,
> over hosting that with a third party, such as FastMail.fm? If not, any
> suggestions for alternatives beyond that one?
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