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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:32:20PM +0100, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > I've been pondering paying a couple dollars a month for someone else > to handle my email. The advantage is just that I can turn my machine > off and that I can have greater reliability (i.e., my ISP's quirks > don't affect me as much). > > I've also been pondering using my ipod touch to read mail when I'm not > at home. Sort of like having a personal blackberry, maybe. I dunno > if I'll like it or not. A counter argument is that maybe I like not > being wired all the time. I dunno. > > The hitch is that I can't imagine life without procmail between me and > my email. For example, I've already received 435 emails today, but > only seen a dozen or two. Probably a third were spam and over half > were list mail of various sorts. That's the way I want it. > > I'm curious how others have handled this and what thoughts this > arouses from other nerdly folk who like the flexibility of having > their own server but contemplate doing other things with their free > time than managing a server. Well, assuming you're going to have a computer at home at all, you're going to need to spend some time managing it. But having said that, I have to fiddle with qmail so infrequently that on the rare occasions when I need to, I've generally forgotten how to do it. :) The only email chore that occupies any of my time is managing a few mailing lists, and I'd have to do that anyway even if my mail was being delivered remotely. Walt
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