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a | ===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? | |||
Latest revision as of 02:05, 31 December 2010
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?