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Migrating Local Email into the Cloud?

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-clouds-can-disappear dept.

Jaruzel writes:

"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.

The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.

Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Jaruzel on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:23PM

    by Jaruzel (812) on Thursday March 20 2014, @07:23PM (#19114) Homepage Journal

    Which are limited to only 30 aliases per inbox - so no good. :(

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  • (Score: 1) by Tork on Friday March 21 2014, @03:53AM

    by Tork (3914) on Friday March 21 2014, @03:53AM (#19180)
    Would a catchall plus filters for automatic labeling/tagging be a sufficient compromise? I stopped using aliases long ago and use this approach instead because of this sort of pain migrating. Also it means I don't have to pre-setup a new alias when joining a site.
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    • (Score: 1) by choose another one on Friday March 21 2014, @08:31PM

      by choose another one (515) on Friday March 21 2014, @08:31PM (#19547)

      Catchall is great... but these days, IME, leads to spam problems.

      I have been running catchall for years, and in last year or so the problem of spam sent to random_user@domain (and the problem of spam addressed from random_user@domain generating bounce messages from systems that can't be bothered to check SPF properly) has become much much worse. A few filters will handle most of it, but those bounce messages can get quite creative...

      Problem I have now is that I have no list of the hundreds of aliases I have used, so no way to create a whitelist.

      • (Score: 1) by Tork on Friday March 21 2014, @10:24PM

        by Tork (3914) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:24PM (#19568)
        One thing I did with my catchalls is prefix them with a unique word. Here are a few examples: hamdingers-soylentnews@mydomain.com hamdingers-amazon@mydomain.com hamdingers-gawker@mydomain.com I have a filter that if my emails don't start with hamdingers-, throw it away. That's how I dealt with that problem, many years running now.
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        • (Score: 1) by Tork on Friday March 21 2014, @10:26PM

          by Tork (3914) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:26PM (#19569)
          I apologize for the poor formatting of my post, I'm so used to how Slashdot parsed my messages I forgot I need to put linebreaks in.

          Have a good weekend!
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