Re: [Nolug] Why I don't reply on...

Right, there are tools to help with scaling. Gmail has millions of
users :) You wouldn't want that headache, lol.

I'm curious. How rfc compliant is your mail server and what is the
basic anatomy of your setup?

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <mah@everybody.org> wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
>> On 2009-05-15 21:42, Dennis J Harrison Jr wrote:
>>> Google knows their poop.  I do agree that you should have a backup.
>>> But you unless you're running your own email server as a full time
>>> job, you're not going to do as well as the gmail team (and even then
>>> it's highly debatable).  Now, the scary thing is if/when they change
>>
>> Is it really *that* difficult to run an email server like exim or
>> postfix?  Once you configure it properly, they just *work*.
>
> As someone who runs my own mail server (for myself and others), I keep
> an eye on Gmail's downtime and spam filtering.  Perception bias plays a
> part, I'm sure, but they don't seem that much more reliable than what I
> can do.
>
> Not orders-of-magnitude more reliable, anyway.
>
> Can I scale up the way they have?  Not right now.  But there are tools
> to help with that.
>
> Mark.
>
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