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Comment by Sami_Lehtinen | Hacker News Reader

Why bother using Postfix for mail forwarding? Why not to use Gmail MX directly?

I run my own servers with postfix, dovecot and roundcube. Therefore I don't need Gmail for anything. (It's also huge privacy issue.)

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I switched from running my own servers to GMail. It's easily worth $5/mo to not have to worry about security bulletins, kernel updates, etc. Self-hosting is fine for stuff like my personal website, but I live and die by my email.

I don't use google apps for my domains so Gmail MX wouldn't really work, plus I have some aliases that I think are maybe too complicated for Gmail. What do you think of roundcube? I haven't tried it yet, since php puts me off.

Yeah, roundcube is the only reason I have installed PHP. I really would prefer not to use PHP. I don't personally like roundcube too much. For sure it's not great, but it does still work okish. I'm usually using proper mail client(s), so roundcube is just a backup. Btw. roundcube is also the reason why I'm running MySQL too. I'm using Python 3 & MongoDB with all of my own apps.

What aliases could be too complicated for Gmail? Roundcube is an OK web email client, but let's be honest, it doesn't even match up what Gmail can offer you, in terms of integrated services like Google Docs, free phone dialing, video conferencing, etc.

I have some stupid aliases that go to multiple people set up as virtual addresses in Postfix. I'm sure I could convince google to do that for me.

Yes, Google Apps let you create mailing lists.

RoundCube is fine. I wonder though, why there isn't a good webmail client in Python or Ruby.

I run my mail through Postfix and have it listen for special code words/triggers and then perform special actions (like restarting nginx or Apache).

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