A Fundraising Idea

[ralphy]

For me it is a tough call. I manage over 2000 mailboxes for 19 domains. Email services is one of the most maintenance-intensive services one can run (if we expect to run it ourselves). When the service is kept in a single box things are a easier to manage (yet time consuming); as soon as the mail services need to escalate that's a full time job for at least one administrator... infrastructure, maintenance, etc. What's the target audience? How many people are willing to support linuxlite in that regard? The list goes on as we dive deeper into having a reliable service for users. A forwarding service is "OK" if all the user expects is to receive emails forwarded from an @linuxliteos.com alias but even then it has consequences. For example, some users may attempt to replay to messages "forging" the @linuxleos.com address and it will (and should) fail otherwise our domain name may land in blacklists pretty quick. Ordinary users do not tend to be educated in how mail services work and they may end up more confused than anything, perhaps thinking that their email provider has problems delivering emails when in fact t is a feature in place to prevent abuse. Properly configured domains use DNS records to specify which servers are allowed to send emails on their behalf. SPF, DKIM, DMARC, filtering and so on... all plays an important roll in email delivery. Let's assume that we create accounts and some users accounts get compromised... linuxliteos.com domain name gets blacklisted and we end up not even being able to deliver forum notifications to users mailboxes; not pretty.

I don't like to sound negative but I wouldn't do it.

Those willing to support what we do can donate to the project, purchase a USB or some other product from the store or send us a coffee every now and then. Linux Lite domain should not be used for anything other than the project in itself.