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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by techsupporter on Sunday February 12, 2012 @10:48AM (#3582063)
There are several[1] guides[2] that demonstrate how to set up a full-featured and secure e-mail system. Personally, I run my own e-mail on Exchange Server 2010--complete with a multi-copy database availability group and multiple front-end servers--but I'm known for overkill.

1 - http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/index.html

2 - http://www.mail-toaster.org/

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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by yabai on Sunday February 12, 2012 @11:26AM (#3582154)
Why would you choose to run Exchange?
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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by techsupporter on Sunday February 12, 2012 @12:22PM (#3582312)
Because I like it, I'm good at it, and it plays nice with all my devices that support ActiveSync. Cloud providers have added support for ActiveSync, but I'm too much of a control freak to give up my self-hosted setup (both due to perceived privacy problems and spam concerns). At this point my Exchange environment is a collection of virtual machines spread across two physical machines (and two disk sets in one machine), so my hardware cost is minimal.
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Re:Ask HN: How to move away from Gmail by yabai on Sunday February 12, 2012 @01:19PM (#3582476)
Fair enough.

My employer uses Exchange (for some reason still running Exchange 2003!!!) and I have always struggled getting mail clients to play properly with exchange. I have finally given up and am running Outlook virtually.

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