23 Feb
2010
23 Feb
'10
8:41 p.m.
Duggie said:
I'm considering migrating my email handling to
gmail for business.
I've used gmail as a web interface to my email for several years. It
works, and the spam filtering seems to be correct in almost every
case.
I still find false positives, but yes, it's generally ok.
My current mail handling works as follows...
I use exim4 to handle the email for 6 domains. Only 2 of the domains
are used regularly, with about 10 accounts for each.
I use Postfix. It is told to check conformance to various standards,
and if ok, a greylist daemon checks to see if they've sent email to
the server correctly before. If not, the sender gets told to try again
later. If so, it's either chucked away as going to a non-existent
address or delivered to both a local email inbox *and* Gmail. Some
domains accept mail for almost any address, others on only a few.
I use Gmail as a free backup and a web interface and I don't bother
with SBL or SpamAssassin. Greylisting seems to work so well, I've
never seen the need.
Does this sound like something which could be migrated
to gmail?
Not knowing exim4, can you tell it to deliver valid mail to a Gmail
account rather than to a local inbox, as you can with Postfix?
I think that I make my email handling more difficult
than necessary -
A friend has so many checks, it is amazing that any mail gets through to him.
Ian