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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: 4, Informative) by Jaruzel on Friday March 21 2014, @10:32AM
I'm not scared of command line, or Linux. I'm just a veteran of MS Tech due to my job. However, my reason for looking at Cloud/SaaS type solution is that I don't want to be faffing with my own server any more.
People suggesting Dovecot/Postfix et al. - although your responses are 100% valid and appreciated, for me you are basically just saying 'Swap Server Technology X in your garage for Server Technology Y in your garage'.
Grinding away in your basement with custom personal installs of services is all well and good, especially when it's only your own data at stake, but as I get older, and am less inclined to waste the remaining years of my live on software installs, I find myself looking at other providers who can do it much better than I, and with much less hassle. Less than a few months ago, I was the biggest anti-Cloud person you'd find. Things change.
Whether we like it or not, 'Cloud' type solutions are here to stay, and as a community we should at least let them over the threshold and consider what they bring to the party. Surely, the best solution is the right solution, regardless of how it's provided?
This is my opinion, there are many others, but this one is mine.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mechanicjay on Friday March 21 2014, @11:13AM
Yes, they are here to stay and it's a damn travesty. The Personal Computing revolution created a distributed power base in the computing world. We're rapidly ceding all our power to fewer and fewer large corporations who are controlling the horizontal and the vertical of our computing. And all it costs you is your privacy, but hey, that's not worth anything anyway,right? If you're going to use a hosted solution, at least pay for it. Then you have the illusion of not being the product.
I completely agree with the first part of your statement, the problem is getting people to agree on what "best" means. For me, running my own postfix/dovecot etc is the best solution because I have complete control and am 100% responsible for it.
Regardless of how it's provided? Sounds like a deal with the devil to me.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Friday March 21 2014, @12:15PM
The real problem i have with cloud, is once you put the information into it, the legal language the provider runs under is pretty grey. Yes, you own your information (legally), but they have access to it 24/7 and for all intensive purposes the provider "owns" it (controls access).
I'm sure the email you have in store isn't "all that important" or "not a security concern" but I cringe every time more of us give up the later form of Ownership.