Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Salesforce.com guy says servers are done, cloud is future Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:11:07 +0100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net vbEb57rLTX6cbylmA8H92gU9UG6uNCJNyHfuksNcDevYOV6FAx X-Orig-Path: squidward.local.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:f/Ad0T1nNoPEqDwEPc16pMNiZ8M= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2311 On 08/04/14 18:48, Randy Westlund wrote: > On 2014-04-08, Tim Watts wrote: >> At home, I use Google Calendar - unlikely to "go away" and we do not >> have anything hugely sensitive in there. >> >> I run my own mailserver because I am NOT having that scanned by Google. >> >> I use Google Drive for only a few things and run my own fileserver for >> everything else. > > I host my own fileservers and websites (small scale personal stuff). > I've played around with setting up my own mailserver a few times, > but have either had my ISP blocking port 25, or couldn't get google > to recognize my mail as legitimate. The last one I set up can send > mail to my gmail account, but can't even reach the spam folder of > any other gmail accounts I've tried. > > So for the time being, I'm stuck using gmail's servers for email, > then syncing it with my servers and reading it here with offlineimap > and mutt. > You need a decent ISP and having a block of 8 static IPs helps which tends to mean the pool has not been pooped in by regular "dial up" users.