[LUGSB] Email management

[Jonathan Dahan]

A good mail client is claws-mail ( http://www.claws-mail.org/ ) - it's what
thunderbird wishes it was.  As far as being able to centrally manage all
emails with history over the web, good luck. You might be able to increase
you sparky quota just by asking especially if you are a TA and keep the
(admittedly clunky) system you have going now.

- Jonathan

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Setting up a mail client (aka an MUA) can be hard.  I opt for stability:
> something old and good and stable.  I've used MH which stores one message
> per file in a separate folder, b/c it allows me a lot of flexibility and
> also reduces the chance of corrupting mbox files.
>
> Setting up mail servers is a lot more of a pain than setting up clients.
> Primarily you have to worry about anti* filtering on incoming/outgoing.
> Setting the SMTP server and DNS is relatively easy: setting them up
> securely
> is 90% of the work these days.  After years of spending time to do it on my
> own, I got fed up and got a commercial box for my lab (from Barracuda
> Networks).
>
> Unless you have a lot of time to spare, I don't recommend setting up mail
> services on your own.  Many sites these days are offloading this hassle to
> a
> service based company of sorts: it turns out to be cheaper in the long run.
>
> That's why gmail et al are nice b/c they do a lot of that filtering on
> their
> own, provide a reasonable interface, and ample quota.
>
> We looked into gmail here on campus.  Alas, gmail violates FERPA b/c (1)
> they expressly say they'd scan the email and (2) they allow emails to be
> replicated/offloaded outside the US.  Some universities overseas have
> decided it's safe to use gmail; others, primarily in the US, decided it's
> not usable.  Google reportedly offers some deal that complies with FERPA,
> but it costs so much, one might as well look at all other available
> commercial email offloading services (e.g., from AT&T, IBM, and others).
>
> Erez.
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