<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Iznogoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iznogoud@nobelware.com" target="_blank">iznogoud@nobelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">><br>
> One of the things I have become quite anal about is my information being<br>
> out of<br>
> my control. This limits me to not using cloud services. For me - - - I want<br>
> no one<br>
> else to own nor to control my information, this makes me quite reluctant to<br>
> even<br>
> use web based services. I am finding that even this has a lot of unattended<br>
> difficulties!<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>I understand. I empathize. I encourage your behaviour. You are doing it right.<br>
learn, and keep things under your control.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for understanding - - - I have found quite a few 'computer' people who <br></div><div>think I'm being silly - - - in other words - - - the cloud is great what are you worried <br></div><div>about. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
<br>
OK, so skip the virtual server. Keep a box at home, and follow what I said<br>
about forwarding ports (both 80 and the https one... 443 or something), and<br>
directing CNAME nameserver entries at your domain registrant to point home.<br>
Do all internal testing of Horde on your own, with /etc/hosts and the like.<br>
But I can guarantee you that when your mailserver goes out and into production,<br>
you WILL have issues with its integrity, i.e. other mailservers will want you<br>
to have SMTP authentication, not be black- or gray-listed, and various other<br>
attributes.<br>
<br>
It will almost become a part-time job, and do budget for it in your business<br>
plan, that you will spend some of your time on IT-related crap that is simply<br>
imposed on you from the outside. (That is why IT is a big business.)<br>
<br>
Take LOTS of notes, and have a logbook for _everything_ that you do or change<br>
on hte system, with a date and time recorded. Thank me later.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have been trying to do the notes thing - - - it never seems to be enough and they <br></div><div>need to be kept on paper because of course those notes are most needed when the <br></div><div>system that they are on is sick itself - - - grin! <br><br></div><div>There are no plans on make the mailserver a real 'live' edition. At most this is going <br></div><div>to be for internal use only. That should change things quite a bit. The whole information <br></div><div>gathering sorting and storing is becoming a huge time pit. Yet it all needs doing - - - <br></div><div>it doesn't help that I'm trying to do something hugely complex either. But then I've upped <br></div><div>my skills in a number of areas already and am looking at a few more - - - partial <br></div><div>differential equations anyone? <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
As for your other, business development related comments, you are welcome. I<br>
do understand that the regulators are always there to make things harder for<br>
you, but there is always a reason for it, and they are merely doing their job.<br>
Your job is to work within the (bureaucratic) framework that is there. It is<br>
good to have your own business and control your own fate. You are doing it<br>
right. If it were not worth it, we would be living in a uber-socialist or a<br>
presumably communist society. No... It pays to have your own business, otherwise<br>
private enterprise would not exist!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The argument that the regulators are 'just doing their jobs' to me seems quite similar <br></div><div>to the arguments presented in the Nuremberg trial in the late 1940s. There are no <br></div><div>reasons to support mindlessly doing destructive practices.<br><br></div><div>It would seem, given the government's propensity for taxing the crap out of businesses <br></div><div>that business is easy to do rather than the opposite. If only governments could realize <br></div><div>that they themselves have now become the major impediment to the long term <br></div><div>financial health of our nations! <br><br></div><div>Regards<br><br></div><div>Dee<br></div></div></div></div>