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If running your own mail server is still important to then you will need a few item in today's world even if they are not RFC required. These items are mainly:
- spam filtering
- antivirus filtering
- spf
- dkim
- dmarc
You either have to build these yourself or use a product that has it built in. With cloud systems clearly on the rise, most are going to find that it isn't worth the trade off and succumb to the pressure of using Gmail or Microsoft Hosted Exchange for around $4 per month.
However there are other options out there. If you don't want to give up control of the mail server (and I wouldn't blame you if fall into this category) but still want the items listed above, you could always use SCANMAILX.COM
Though it doesn't look like much on the outside, it is actually a terrific product depending on the number of account you need to manage. For about $175, you can protect and secure all the accounts on the domain.
Jesper Knudsen is the brains behind SCANMAILX and one of the most brilliant developers of our time. After emailing back and forth a few short times so I could feel comfortable with the product, I signed up.
It is rather easy to get going as well. You don't even have to setup accounts on the SCANMAILX side. Three simple steps to change to SCANMAILX.
CHANGE TO SCANMAILX
- change MX records TTL to 3600 (1 hour. The lowest TTL possible in NS).
- be certain the FORWARD HOST is correctly configured in SCANMAILX account.
- change DNS mx records to mxdk01.scanmailx.com & mxdk02.scanmailx.com.
It's been a few months since signing up and everything is humming along just fine and dandy. The controls at the administrator side of their web site is pretty straight forward.