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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?