[strumptrumpet]

I run my own mail server and it's essentially zero work. I have postfix, dovecot, SpamAssassin, and RoundCube, all authenticated via LDAP.

It required some upfront configuration, but it has run itself with minimal configuration changes and 'apt-get' updates for almost 6 years now. I never touch it, and it works.

> It's not just the configuration, your service will always be subpar. At least until there's a good webmail (I have high hopes for Mailpile).

That assumes that user's want to primarily use webmail. In this renaissance of Mac OS X mail clients and mobile phones, that hasn't been the case here.

[spindritf]

LDAP does make things a little easier but how do you synchronize stored e-mails and filtering rules between servers?

[ibotty]

when using dovecot you can use dsync: http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Dsync

[slug]

dsync seems to stop working properly after a while for some reason, the usual solution is to upgrade it, which implies a compile from source. after a while it's a pain to keep all these packages up to date.

[ibotty]

i am using it in production (debian wheezy package, version 2.1.7-7 now) and it works pretty reliable. do you have a link to a bug report? i kind of depend on it atm, so i'd like to know its bugs.

[jlgaddis]

LDAP is used for storing the Postfix configuration "databases": users, aliases, transports, etc.

[rhizome]

Why do you need to?