On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 11:07 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
Note that at the time I did this (geeze, like 15 years ago), things
like
Gmail, Office 365 and many of the other cloud-based email systems did
not exist. We had to roll our own. Would I do it again? If we needed
complete control of things or our email requirements grew to a similar
number of "seats" that made a commercial product too expensive, yes.
I have the experience so it's not that daunting to me, but it's not
something I'd necessarily relish revisiting.
I successfully lobbied my university board to switch to what is now
called G Suite, which is free for educational users. The main
motivation was economic: we simply couldn't afford to keep expanding
our server hardware infrastructure to carry the exploding load, but
more importantly the corporate salary structure didn't allow us to pay
competitive rates to admins. This may not suit everyone, but in our
case if we had not done this our mail service would have collapsed.
[Before anyone asks, this was in Venezuela. Enough said.]
poc