[COLUG] Mail server advice

[Tom Hanlon]

Hi Colug,

I host websites for a few folks but I have avoided handling of email.

I am tempted to mess with email but I feel it might be a pain.

Spam , IMAP, SSL, POP and then security security security.

I really would be managing very little, it would be my own mail  
basically.

Instead of configuring it myself, I might just have , earthlink or  
Google, or register.com,  handle it. ?

Pros and Cons:

They get a lot more spam so there filters should have a handle on it.
Spam to their servers does not equal bandwidth on mine.

Cons:
I would like to get my RHCE cert this year and I assume passing  
knowledge of sendmail , postfix, Cyrus, Courrier, Dovecot and the  
like are involved.
Mail config does not seem to be alot of fun.
I currently have only one machine, I really should have a backup once  
I start handling mail.

So is email server config worth my effort? The exercise would be  
largely educational.

Other services that I have configured have been largely trouble free.  
Would my email be trouble free, or are there regular exploits?

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Tom