[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] bradbobak: Re: mail through a provider-blocked mail port

[Matt Draisey]

On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 09:38 -0400, Windsor UNIX Users Group wrote:
> Author: bradbobak
> Username: bradbobak (d57-50-194.home.cgocable.net)
> Subject: Re: mail through a provider-blocked mail port
> Forum: Software
> Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,131,132#msg-132
> Approved: Yes
> 
>  Well, I managed to get my domain .sandmines.org (which is on the internet and my lan) working using postfix to talk to googles smtp server. Now everything sent to someone at sandmines.org (forwarded to my gmail account) gets propagated from my gmail account to my local lan (via fetchmail). I can now mail out to anyone from my lan (using mail someone at somewhere) and my main postfix server in my lan will send it out via googles smtp server.
>  My head is spinning after all of this, but it is working. I am so happy!!
>  Tomorrow I am going to re-do it all and make a how-to documenting everything I did and make it available to the public.
> 
> 
I started running my mail through google apps soon after it was offered.
It really took the load off my server.  The spam filtering was getting
to be murder.  I set the appropriate MX records and google apps handles
all the rest.

Google apps really is very good.  Its free of cost and remarkably open.
I'm using evolution as my primary mail client but use the web app too.
Having my mail replicated on the server is very handy.  The imap
interface would be ideal but all the linux imap clients I have tried are
horribly slow and inefficient.  I'm using pop for inbound mail now.

I also use it as a forwarding service for other family members.  Added
accounts for them and set all their mail to forward to their existing
email addresses.  I've never had cause to use any of the more
sophisticated filtering that is also available.

I am very happy with google apps.  As a service it can't be beat.  With
a service like this I don't really care if the underlying software is
free or not provided that the data isn't locked in.

Matt