In part 1 I went through the process of deciding what service to use for my mail and ended up going with Google Apps. It allows me to keep my existing domain name, I can access my data from just about anywhere, I have access to a calendar and contacts and best of all its free. In part 2 I’ll go through the steps I used to get everything up and running and detail a couple of gotcha’s the almost had me going back to my home servers. Read more…
Being a bit of a tech head and knowing a thing or two about email it only seems proper to have my own email server and for the last few years I did. I started out with building a Linux server running SendMail then graduated up to running a full blow Microsoft Exchange infrastructure with Domain servers, DNS servers, Front End servers, Email gateways, the whole bit. Lately though its become a bit of a hassle to run. The servers constantly need to be updated, the server everything runs on is behind on some crucial updates and it’s starting to run a bit slow, etc. So I started looking at other solutions, cutting back on the number of servers running, move to a hosted solution, use an email forwarding solution, etc.