[plug] How MS-Windows cost one man over $2000 - and he doesn't even use it

[Craig Ringer]

> The emails quoted above were from a customer of mine who was also 
> experiencing lagged (half a day) emails, which he thought at the time 
> were simply being lost, and this also hampered his business.

The POST has excellent results with iiNet's email service. We don't use 
it, having given up, and now it's great ;-).

If you're on iiNet, host your own mailserver or expect unreliable, 
apallingly slow mail. They need to double the size of their mailserver 
cluster, and start doing some proactive monitoring.

As it is, I'm about to set up a secondary mailserver on 
www.postnewspapers.com.au out at Indigo/AceOnLine so I can drop iiNet as 
my secondary MX, too. 70% of my spam now comes through their 
non-spam-filtered servers. Usually with date-stamps at least a day old ;-)

They provide OK service as a layer 3 network connectivity provider, but 
I won't use them for much more than that. Oh, their DNS is utterly rock 
solid as well - I think it might've gone down briefly a couple of years 
ago, but that's it.

So Leon, my advice to you is to start looking into a local mail server 
for your client. It's been an absolute wonder for the POST, and we rely 
on email for a disturbing amount of our business.

I use Exim on the gateway/firewall, forwarding to 
sendmail+MimeDefang+SpamAssassin+cyrus on an internal host. Keeps 
sendmail from being directly reachable from the outside world, at least.

Craig Ringer


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