Ask YC: What mail server do you use?

13 points by darius 18 years ago | 19 comments

We are using google apps to host our email services and got our application to send emails out using gmail servers. The limitation to this approach is that we can send only 500 emails per day.

What are you guys using to send emails? Are you hosting an email server yourselves?

nickb 18 years ago |

Postfix - easy to setup & better security model than sendmail.

dfranke 18 years ago |

Dreamhost hosts my mailbox. I have a nice setup that runs server-side where SpamAssassin automatically trains CRM114 and the two check each others' results and make sure they don't produce opposite conclusive answers. I use mutt as an MUA and Postfix as an MTA, with DynDNS's outbound mailhop service to get around the firewalls imposed by various lame ISPs.

thomasswift 18 years ago |

google apps myself, I haven't hit the limit. Just create more users and append a # (noreply1,noreply2) to the end of them. I thought I read that was google's answer for when your breaking the limit.

Question for you, what are the limitation, besides this, you've had with google apps mail servers?

darius 18 years ago | |

You are right, that's what google suggests to do if you hit the 500 emails limit. Using a queue is another option...

I didn't find any other limitations to using google apps.

thomasswift 18 years ago | | |

Thanks for the reply.

Zak 18 years ago |

I currently run a mail server for a client, though I rarely use it for my own purposes. It's Exim.

SwellJoe 18 years ago |

Postfix (managed by Virtualmin and Webmin, of course).

kogir 18 years ago |

For outgoing mail, I use the IIS SMTP service. For incoming postfix + courier is great, but people are making noise about exchange (ugh).

gsiener 18 years ago |

I've got a somewhat related question: If a bunch of guys that were used to Exchange and the internal calendaring/syncing with phones/etc. left, and wanted to break their MS bonds and embrace oss, what would they use? Basically - is their a compelling alternative that would still work with Blackberry?

mrtron 18 years ago |

Free gmail for own domain

inklesspen 18 years ago |

I use courier right now. But I've migrated from courier to dovecot for pop3/imap, and I'm planning to migrate from courier to postfix for smtp. Courier is just too limited.

joe 18 years ago |

Three separate Postfix instances running on the same server, albeit bound to separate IP addresses and tweaked for their particular use.

gibsonf1 18 years ago |

Google Docs - Free version (Gmail with own domain)

rob 18 years ago |

webmail.us, the best.

altano 18 years ago | |

webmail.us is extremely well run, despite their enterprisey web page. I would recommend them very highly.

simpleenigma 18 years ago |

Curently writting my own in Erlang ... again ...

astrec 18 years ago |

can't go wrong with postfix

epi0Bauqu 18 years ago |

qmail

justincase 18 years ago |

Some registrars also offer e-mail service, like GoDaddy. It's much cheaper than webmail.us but you don't get as much storage.