[plug] TPG group no longer providing email

[Benjamin]

MIAB sounds pretty good - also consider Mailcow - despite the silly name
Mailcow is incredibly easy to deploy and self host

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023, 4:00 PM Warren Argus <warren at warbel.net> wrote:

>
> 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
> <Chris%20McCormick%20%3cchris at mccormick.cx%3e>>
> *To*: Warren Argus <warren at warbel.net
> <Warren%20Argus%20%3cwarren at warbel.net%3e>>
> *Cc*: PLUG <plug at plug.org.au <PLUG%20%3cplug at plug.org.au%3e>>
> *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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