Email Server Justification: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 02:05, 31 December 2010

technical reasons why our server is better

Tried gmail: sucked for client users
- IMAP is very slow
Security/encryption
- We have end-to-end SSL
IP issues
Large message size 100MB vs. 25MB gmail
Higher availability
Easier to add users
- Collaborators from institutions with more restrictive systems
Trivial to add aliases (newegg, request, etc.)
Server log mailing
Support for Pine
We control the size of inboxes and can scale hardware

administrative reasons why ours is better

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+===Reasons to keep our email server===
+technical reasons why our server is better
+*Tried gmail: sucked for client users
+**IMAP is very slow
+*Security/encryption
+**We have end-to-end SSL
+*IP issues
+*Large message size 100MB vs. 25MB gmail
+*Higher availability
+*Easier to add users
+**Collaborators from institutions with more restrictive systems
+*Trivial to add aliases (newegg, request, etc.)
+*Server log mailing
+*Support for Pine
+*We control the size of inboxes and can scale hardware
+===Reasons not to switch===
+administrative reasons why ours is better
+*Hardware and admin setup is a sunk cost
+*We can switch to gmail at any time, no reason to hurry
+*Users who prefer gmail can simply use campus accounts
+*Forwarding from isu addresses is supported
+*LDAP and user authentication is already needed for numerous other projects
+*First email, and then what? Web servers? File servers?