Out of the email business
A while back I pontificated about finding other hosting for Lectroid.net. I ultimately blew it off because none of the commercial options seemed like a good fit. But then Google started supporting IMAP in GMail.
As they say, this changes everything.
IMAP support means the wife and I can continue to use Apple’s Mail.app on our Macs just as before. Not only that but Mail.app really integrates well with GMail by allowing you to select which online folders to use for “Drafts”, “Trash”, “Sent” and “Junk”. Not only THAT but GMail’s IMAP supports SSL for both IMAP and authenticated sending. Just freakin’ awesome.
And of course GMail obviously offers a web interface meaning we can get our email from anywhere if need be - a feature I really didn’t have before.
Setting this up through Google Apps let me uninstall and stop worrying about Dovecot and procmail, turn off OpenBSD’s spamd, untweak all the sendmail.mc changes I’d made and close port 25 forever. For free.
Oh and as an added bonus you get GTalk and since I was running ejabberd for similar functionality that’s another set of software that went bye-bye. Did I mention for free.
Yeah, you get to wonder about privacy issues and you “only” get 4 gigs of space, but for the needs of a small home domain, these are total non-issues.
Next up… Google Calendar
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