Re: (OT) Setting up a mail server

Tom,

Why HTML in emails? Ditch that, and you can probably half your bandwidth requirement right away. Even at that, I wouldn't thank you for sending me a 100k email every week. Why not just send them a short email with a link to a Web page? That's where HTML belongs - where I can choose to download it at a time to suit me, rather than clogging up my email (which can be expensive to download, depending on where I am).

Polonius

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Re^2: (OT) Setting up a mail server by webchalkboard (Scribe) on May 31, 2006 at 08:24 UTC
Well I take your point, but we had a designer make us a really cool template, so i'm fairly sure my boss would be upset if I ditched it and went with a plain text email instead :) It is a good point though, especially when users are downloading emails on portable devices for example, so it would be a good idea to reduce the size of the message considerably, which i'm fairly sure we could. Infact I expect its not that big, I was just using 100k as its an easy size to work out bandwidth requirements with, and to play safe. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius WebChalkboard.com	[reply]
Re^3: (OT) Setting up a mail server by lukeyboy1 (Beadle) on May 31, 2006 at 09:29 UTC
I'd suggest two hosting options for a server www.34sp.com - based in Manchester, and are pretty darned good. In fact, one of my old workmates works there, and he's pretty good at what he does! Co-lo there is around 90 pounds per month, but it's pretty good, and you get an excellent plesk control panel. I use them myself - but use the reseller hosting plan, which is good for my needs at 15 pounds per month. www.1and1.co.uk - they do a co-lo server from 29.99 per month (with 10Gb of transfer per month). Either way, qmail is set up on both, ready to go. Hope this helps! cheers, Luke	[reply]