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@Jar
Zimbra :^)
I'd start by asking Jarland and reading his comments http://www.lowendtalk.com/profile/Jar I think he said someway that he'd be willing to share his config. Get a jump start in your biznitz. But good luck.
Google Apps costs $5/mailbox/month. They have developed their own distributed system technology, using their own file system, own their servers, network and global data centres outright, have hundreds of PhD-level engineers around the world as well as 24x7 support who are willing to help people, even to set up Outlook. They have invested in the interface and usability as well, and the spam and virus detection are second to none. They have plugins to make it easier to use Outlook and implement the Exchange protocol for push email.
You are using whatever you can find that's not too expensive or complicated, own nothing and are posting on a random forum looking for basic advice. I'm guessing you dont have any real technology qualifications or financial backing, or any way to provide useful support or innovate in the market.
Who do you think these companies are going to choose?
First you need a nice domain, i have inbox.li but never got around creating a service out of it - Too much work manually and b1gmail is expensive...
Big things start from small. He might have an great idea.
I'd love to see that but so far I'm just seeing nonsense. A quick look at other threads don't help either:
http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/62237/ram-issue-with-vps#latest
Its hard the set up everything right to get mail delivered. But if you do it good you will get a good mailserver.
Can't argue with logic like that. What a well thought out contribution!
Thanx
I am sorry for sharing my problem.
Btw, ideas dont get limited with technology.
can haz, i have, you know.
More seriously, the topic seems to pop up here every couple of months. It's a hard task.
I was thinking of getting a vestacp + roundcube for each of their domains.
my clients need a simple mail , ami missing something ?
Setup DKIM, SPF for domain, install and configure ASSP for incoming and outgoing mail.
any one has tried reseller club mail plans ? they seem very affordble and reseller friendly.
cpanel is much easier
Domain registrars generally have pretty slow and mediocre email/forwarding services. The fact they're cheap/free is a sign the quality isn't there. I say that as a domain reseller with 12 of them.
No doubt there is some benchmarking, somewhere... for those who wish to delve deeper about which services give best value.
The simple advice is let the big boys take care of it. If the email is worth sending and receiving then you should be able to stretch to a little more than free/very cheap.
Cpanel would be easiest I guess. There are also some quite good free panels that could do the job you can check ISPconfig http://www.ispconfig.org or alternc http://alternc.org
If you want to make your hand dirty, you might like to read the code of @Servercow 's mailcow http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/58855/mailcow-a-complete-mail-server-suite and build your own system. They support MX2 and everything so it should be pretty easy to build what you need from there and just ask your customers to redirect their domains names to your MX
You also might want to read a bit about firewall and intrusion detection and have good security practices to keep your server safe and your customer's data safe. (good firewall rules, process isolation, review all the code you use, automatic security updates and so on)
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Main_Page_AppSuite#quickinstall
how does MailHost.in sound. The service is for india. i own it.
I love vesta... its lightweight and has all i need. do mail hosting serve better in cpanel ?
Sounds nice. But a domain is not all what's needed. You need to create and maintain a stable system and market it well...
Good luck
We are locally going to reach out in technical festival of colleges and give free .pw for the first year....
Also check http://www.iredmail.org/
If they need a Google Apps like service, they need Google Apps. But I'm guessing those are not their actual requirements. Get those straight first and then decide what's best for them.
I actually meant email on their own domain.
It's not so much about the back end platform you choose, or even if you choose to make one, as it is about maintaining it. Let me give you some insight into my day/week.
You have to be able to deal with this question on a regular basis:
"Why are you better than Gmail?"
My answer, personally, is "Because if you have a problem, I actually give a shit."
Yet, I have a ton of happy clients who are understanding and happy to work with me when they have a problem. I'm a customer of my own product. I make decent money for a secondary income source. I love my work. If you think you can handle this and you're ready to commit to what it takes to be an email provider, I'm thrilled for you and happy to offer any advice that I can
My current SA customizations:
http://pastebin.com/WuMkbNsu
Also may or may not be relevant to my sauce:
https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets
@Jar Your post reminds me that I might owe you money. Sending now, don't cancel me bro!
Fortunately, with all of those jobs above, the one I care about the least is going through the overdue invoices :P
Great job @Jar.
If you have to ask how to do it then you should not do it.