StvOR!

Star Wreck: In the PirkinningWell its all over the internet allready, but i have point it out myself aswell.

One big congratulation to the team, I hope others geeks will follow now that we see that it can be done

I have been running my own linux email server for a couple of years now, but i am seriously thinking about switching to online email provider such as gmail.

Reasons why I have been running my own server till now was:

• Control: I can control everything, from spam blocking to number of aliases to web frontends or size of mailbox (only limited by hd space)
• Backup: I can be sure that none of my email gets lost by making regular backups. You would be surprised how many ISP’s that offer email in a package, don’t backup mail.
• Its on my own domain name. This has little practical use but it has some cool factor.
• IMAP, so your server does the hardwork, and you have all your mail accessible from multiple pc’s

Of course there are downsides like , hardware failures, making backups, verifying backups, keeping up with security alerts of server software you are running.

Setting up mail server and everything that goes whit it (postfix, cyrus, dns, firewalls, spammasassin, clamav), is not simple either, but then again it is very educational experience and something I don’t/didn’t mind doing.

I started thinking about switching after reading Jeremy Zawodny’s 30 day Gmail and Yahoo! chalange

Reason’s to switch:

• They offer enough storage space to last me a while (its not 160 gb though ;))
• Good searching, but i will miss grep
• tagging == better folders
• Decent spam control
• google itself proved to be reliable host, despite some problem recently
• Interface is finally responsive thanks to AJAX

Perhaps the most important thing is availability of broadband internet. If you see computer somewhere, there are good chances that its connected to the Internet. I can’t remember last place i couldn’t connect to the internet, but it was few years ago.

Important for me is that that there are libraries like libgmail , gmail.py and gmail file system whit which i can access my mail if i ever need to.

For starters i will switch my mailing list subscriptions and I will see how it goes from there.

Well i finaly have some free time, so i created this new blog. I do hope I will use it more often than the old one.

There are two reasons why i have started this blog

• I suck at writing:I hope that writing this blog will help me improve, so i can document my code better. Or maybe even write articles that people can understand. Hopefully
• Organizing contentI often stumble upons some interesting topic (like audi codecs etc.) and bookmark interesting links to read later. But problem is that now i have ower 4000 uncategorized bookmarks, that i know i will never go through.

So this is the first post, now its time to custumize this blog a bit.