[arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

[Menachem Moystoviz]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson at archlinux.org> wrote:
> [2012-10-14 10:19:10 +0200] Menachem Moystoviz:
>> So in essence, what you're proposing is to only upgrade from VPS to private
>> hosting when the resiliency of my private server is good enough - i.e. not most
>> naive setups? It does make sense, and would make backups more urgent
>> and important.
>
> Backups are a must regardless of your setup. Next comes the question of
> reliability: how much downtime are you willing to trade for convenience?
>
> Here is what I do: I nearly exclusively use my official email addresses
> (professional, university alumni, Arch Linux) because there are people
> who will notice and fix any issue 24/7, and I care deeply that every
> email sent to me reaches its destination; whenever I feel like reading
> emails, I pull them from those accounts onto my machine (and send a copy
> to gmail automatically - I only use them as a backup service); I read my
> emails comfortably using mutt and have a unison regularly synchronize
> the (encrypted) copy of my emails I have on all my machines.
>
> I also run postfix on my home server but only use it to run a couple of
> silly mailing lists that I am perfectly willing to lose for a few weeks
> if it so happens that I am travelling and my server breaks down. I would
> not trust a private VPS more, nor any server that has a single admin.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> Gaetan

So basically, your setup is something like:
Use corporate mail, pulling email onto your machine each time you read it,
plus some backups and your own mail server for hobbyist stuff?

Sounds quite similar to what I had in mind. Thanks.

Gesh