While I don't believe the google account deletion hysterics I did setup dove cot imap to trial hosting my own email. On friday I got an unshakable feeling of keeping all my eggs in one basket. squirrel mail is no gmail replacement but it's good enough so far, and I read mostly via imap
I managed my own email sever for a long time but eventually grew tired of fighting spam. Unfortunately spam is so rampant now that you're going to have to devote a lot of personal attention to do 1/10th as good a job as GMail to fight it.
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While I don't believe the google account deletion hysterics I did setup dove cot imap to trial hosting my own email. On friday I got an unshakable feeling of keeping all my eggs in one basket. squirrel mail is no gmail replacement but it's good enough so far, and I read mostly via imap
I managed my own email sever for a long time but eventually grew tired of fighting spam. Unfortunately spam is so rampant now that you're going to have to devote a lot of personal attention to do 1/10th as good a job as GMail to fight it.
apt-get install postgrey
That's really all I do...
Admittedly it's been a few years since I did this. Maybe it's gotten easier.
What about other mail servers rejecting mail originating from your server? I had a lot of trouble with that too.
make sure you have a valid MX record and make sure the ip you get is not in a blocked segment in the major spam lists. You might need to do some work.
You can use Gmail with your own domain. That way, it's easy to switch if this ever happens (just a matter of updating some DNS records).
its still not gmail, but i use http://roundcube.net/
Squirrel mail is neither the easiest to setup, nor the most feature rich. Just saying, it doesn't have to be all or nothing.