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

[Brian Stanaland]

I agree about Google Apps. We switched over to Apps when we got smart
phones. Thunderbird filters spam great on the desktop but our phones were
getting hammered. Apps filters mail before it gets sent to the phones. Of
course, our phone providers can filter spam now but we've gotten so used to
the rest of the applications it's not funny. We use it as a family Share
Point tool. We do a spreadsheet for bills, keep notes, do papers for school
and whatnot. But yeah, Google knows absolutely everything there is to know
about me.

Brian

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sean McNealy <sean.mcnealy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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