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[Dan Pritts]

Much as with e-mail, I’d suggest you outsource file storage.  

 box.com <http://box.com/> or dropbox.com <http://dropbox.com/> or google drive or … i dunno.  

Think carefully about the risks and benefits. is “the cloud” more, or less, likely to have a disaster that deletes all your files than you are?  Are your backups up to date, and sent off-site regularly?  What is the risk that the cloud provider will take a big crap and you’ll lose all your stuff?   Do you have stuff that is so sensitive that you can’t send it out?  Odds are that they will run it better than you ever could.  

Do cloud backups while you are at it.  crashplan is good in my experience, i’ve heard good things about backblaze.  

good luck.

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:17 PM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, now that you mention it I spent a year with Exim in a month, several years ago.  I've heard Exim is a cakewalk compared to other MTAs. My issue is with users is with people who use the Exchange server as their own personal file server, grr.  Think Exchange is database driven.  It would sure be nice to just give them more disc space.  Also miss the Linux logs.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Dan Pritts <danno at dogcheese.net <mailto:danno at dogcheese.net>> wrote:
> What Tom Said.
> 
> Running your own e-mail is a huge pain in the ass and almost certainly not cost-effective.
> 
> If you don’t like google for some reason, check out fastmail.com <http://fastmail.com/>.  No affiliation other than as a happy user.
> 
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Tom Lawrence <me at thomaslawrence.com <mailto:me at thomaslawrence.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have built a lot of Postfix servers over the years but it's often more practical to outsource email to a third party provider such as Google Apps. 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Chris Baty <batymahn at gmail.com <mailto:batymahn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Just curious,
>> Has any one migrated from MS Exchange to Sendmail, or any Open source maail server?
>> Chris
>> 
>> Exchange is my current pain..
>> 
> 
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