HI,

I want to know ..

If you have free email server having 0$ hardware and maintenance cost, and low spam then why should a company have their own Email server?


SOHO and small enterprises are investing on Email server and investing a lot of cost for backup, Administration, Down time.

Google is providing email hosting having 6 GB of each account having 200 mailboxes having 0$ cost, without tension of downtime, spam, administration.

1. why we have our own email server?
2. Why developers are reinventing the wheel (sendmail, postfix, exim, mailenable, .......... )

1) Control, privacy, security

2) News flash! sendmail, postfix , exchange, lotus notes all predate google. What MTAs do you think many of the big boys use?

Learn this: nothing is free. You pay for everything in one form or another. Free in terms of money, actually has a price elsewhere: privacy, advertisements in private email, less than optimal antispam protection, poor technical support (try to actually talk to a live body at hotmail.com).

Are you aware that just recently google groups was a source of major backscatter spam? Google does a good job, but like all companies and service providers, they have flaws. Are you aware of the enormous amount of mail that yahoo delays, often for > 12 hours ! That's not "free" either - the price ranges anywhere from mild annoyance to financial loss.

The trick is to learn to determine your requirements, and assess the landscape to make the right choices.