We are a small church with about 10 email users. We have Gig Fiber with static public IPs.
We are currently using email through our webhosting company it has been very unreliable.
Everything I read says, don’t do it. Just looking for anyone’s real world experience with MailPlus Server.
My experience with MailPlus server was very short lived. I set it up and tested if for 30 days, and did NOT get along with the junk mail / spam filtering. It was very clunky and not easily taught. The error rate made it not even worth having. I ended up going with https://mailcow.email and have had a wonderful experience using that instead.
We have several companies running it – if it’s setup correctly there aren’t any issues. From the user interface – it’s like the packaged up GMAIL and put it on your server. I can get you several references if you like.
That would be great if it is no problem.
Thank you. If Synology doesn’t work out. I will look strongly at Mailcow.
I have been running synology mail server for about 12 years on my NAS. I agree with @rutman286 that the junk/spam filtering was not great but not to bad for me. I actually just enabled the bitdefender spam/virus trial to see if it’s any better, license for 5 users is $100 a year. My main use now is just to have an smtp server that will work with older devices.
@ zak706
Thank you for your reply. I would be interested in knowing how well Bitdefender works out for you.
Most of the people who we have that run it are trying to de-Google and de-Microsoft their business and life – it’s a fair point. MS is only going to charge more. We’re switching our email server here to Synology.
@williehowe: I was planing on trying it on a 918+ we have. I just don’t want to go the trouble of switching everything over and it not work well. Then have to change later to something else. But I am going to have to do something. I got a lot of complaints today about emails not coming through.
Hey Ronnie,
So far bit defender is working well. I don’t get too many emails at the domain I have running on it but so far it’s grabbed all junk properly. Works better than the default free AV.
@zak706/ Thank you for sharing. I may look into it. Nice to know there is a solution. It would integrate well with us. We currently use Bitdefender AV.