[plug] TPG group no longer providing email

[Warren Argus]

Hi Chris,

Mailinabox (https://mailinabox.email/) comes with nextcloud integrated
to provide similar functions to o365/GWS. I don't use the MIAB
nextcloud but prefer to self-host my nextcloud on-prem (for reasons I
wont go into here). Suffice to say MIAB is designed as a turnkey
solution and isnt meant for customisation. It takes about 20min to
setup on an Ubuntu 22 VM. It will probably take you more time to get
your DNS registrar sorted out as MAIB needs to be your public
authoritative DNS server (it has a nice API and admin web interface, so
don't worry)

MIAB is pretty straight forward to setup and it will email you when you
need to update it or when there is a new version available.  That said
I'm a syseng for a living, so patching and maintenance are managed with
ansible and some cron jobs for specific things and the MAIB box just
goes into the patch cycle with the rest of my infra.

I was aware of their Sydney DC;  but we are closer to
Singapore... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Kind regards,

Warren

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>
To: Warren Argus <warren at warbel.net>
Cc: PLUG <plug at plug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [plug] TPG group no longer providing email
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:16:07 +0800

Hi Warren,


On 4/8/23 3:11 pm, Warren Argus wrote:
> (I personally use mailinabox + nextcloud 
> hosted in Digital Ocean's Singapore DC)


That's a really interesting solution. How long did it take to deploy 
this? Was it very involved? What about updates - do they get applied 
automatically or you have to do maintenance?

By the way, Digital Ocean have a Sydney data center now too and the VPS
cost is the same as everywhere else.


Cheers,

Chris.



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