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Migrating Local Email into the Cloud?

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-clouds-can-disappear dept.

Jaruzel writes:

"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.

The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.

Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"

 
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  • (Score: 1) by tomtomtom on Friday March 21 2014, @10:18AM

    by tomtomtom (340) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:18AM (#19218)

    It's not all that hard - if you go with the prepackaged versions in your favourite Linux/BSD then most of the defaults should be sane. Setting up things like DKIM is about the trickiest part. If you really are struggling though then you could look at something like iRedMail [iredmail.org] which makes it pretty much trivial to do.

    What is non-trivial is getting groupware-type features ie calendars etc working. For that you could try Kolab [kolab.org] although last time I looked at that it looked difficult to deploy it in a component-by-component fashion which made things more difficult.