Home IMAP server

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Colin Brace wrote:

> On 12/28/06, Jeffrey F. Bloss <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > I wouldn't want my home mail server to be my primary mail server
> > either
> 
> Just curious: why not? Reliability?


Mostly, but not from the point of view of the machine itself. One can
build a rock solid mail server around an old box, I just don't feel the
support infrastructure is there in a home user scenario. You could opt
for a business class feed, hell you could run fiber to your living room
and bolt a rack of line scrubbing whatnots and hot swapable redundant
dodads to the wall beside your big screen, but then you're not really
running a "home server" any more.

Even with a good quality UPS and an end user feed that's been solid for
over a year, I feel a little timid about using my "home owner" setup
full time. If the power goes out for more than about 15 minutes or a
neighbor decides it's a good idea to run his lawn mower into the switch
box that sits in his front yard I'm sunk. And I'd have nobody to
comaplin to. ;) At least with a "real" server I can zip over to the
library and still do my thing. ;)

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