Creating a "mail gateway"

[R.T.]

A couple bonus points:
- GAFYD is free; both in terms of subscription, your time, and his time.
- POP3... check, IMAP... check. Jabber... check.
- Calendar does ical, Docs do Word, Excel, and PowerPoint... as well
as the OpenOffice formats, PDF, HTML, CSV, and so on.
- These people seem to like it:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/customers.html

If platform evangelism is really more important than running the
business and making money, why would a Linux VPS be involved in the
first place? That money is better spent on Hosted Exchange.



On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:30 PM, R. T. <spamstinksmmmkay-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Stop re-inventing the wheel and use Google Apps For Your Domain (
>> https://www.google.com/a/ ).
>>
>> Setup is about 5 seconds, and you get a load of useful tools in
>> addition to mail.
>
> That's a great idea, except for this:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> (He's somewhat married to Microsoft,
>>> despite 6 or 7 years of me trying to change his mind--Exchange isn't
>>> going anywhere anytime soon.)
>
> Google for Domains, or whatever it's called, is an excellent solution
> for lots of people.  For whatever reason, it's not acceptable for my
> dad.
>
> Ian
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