On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > > > One of the things I have become quite anal about is my information being > > out of > > my control. This limits me to not using cloud services. For me - - - I > want > > no one > > else to own nor to control my information, this makes me quite reluctant > to > > even > > use web based services. I am finding that even this has a lot of > unattended > > difficulties! > > > > I understand. I empathize. I encourage your behaviour. You are doing it > right. > learn, and keep things under your control. > Thank you for understanding - - - I have found quite a few 'computer' people who think I'm being silly - - - in other words - - - the cloud is great what are you worried about. > > > OK, so skip the virtual server. Keep a box at home, and follow what I said > about forwarding ports (both 80 and the https one... 443 or something), and > directing CNAME nameserver entries at your domain registrant to point home. > Do all internal testing of Horde on your own, with /etc/hosts and the like. > But I can guarantee you that when your mailserver goes out and into > production, > you WILL have issues with its integrity, i.e. other mailservers will want > you > to have SMTP authentication, not be black- or gray-listed, and various > other > attributes. > > It will almost become a part-time job, and do budget for it in your > business > plan, that you will spend some of your time on IT-related crap that is > simply > imposed on you from the outside. (That is why IT is a big business.) > > Take LOTS of notes, and have a logbook for _everything_ that you do or > change > on hte system, with a date and time recorded. Thank me later. > Have been trying to do the notes thing - - - it never seems to be enough and they need to be kept on paper because of course those notes are most needed when the system that they are on is sick itself - - - grin! There are no plans on make the mailserver a real 'live' edition. At most this is going to be for internal use only. That should change things quite a bit. The whole information gathering sorting and storing is becoming a huge time pit. Yet it all needs doing - - - it doesn't help that I'm trying to do something hugely complex either. But then I've upped my skills in a number of areas already and am looking at a few more - - - partial differential equations anyone? > > As for your other, business development related comments, you are welcome. > I > do understand that the regulators are always there to make things harder > for > you, but there is always a reason for it, and they are merely doing their > job. > Your job is to work within the (bureaucratic) framework that is there. It > is > good to have your own business and control your own fate. You are doing it > right. If it were not worth it, we would be living in a uber-socialist or a > presumably communist society. No... It pays to have your own business, > otherwise > private enterprise would not exist! > The argument that the regulators are 'just doing their jobs' to me seems quite similar to the arguments presented in the Nuremberg trial in the late 1940s. There are no reasons to support mindlessly doing destructive practices. It would seem, given the government's propensity for taxing the crap out of businesses that business is easy to do rather than the opposite. If only governments could realize that they themselves have now become the major impediment to the long term financial health of our nations! Regards Dee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20171031/b160c59a/attachment.html>