On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I used the internet before Google existed. Me too; in the good old days of Compuserve etc.; when AOL was in competition with the Internet and 'AOL' meant something rude 'A... on line'. > And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service. In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not work. (AL) > > Why not rent a cheap VPS, install Centos (of course) and run a mail > > system for your daughter to use? Its bound to be better than Google. > > Your daughter's university emails can be automatically forwarded from > > Google to your Centos VPS. > > This is the realm for ClearOS, SME, or Nethserver which will have a > reasonable mail system working out of the box instead of the months it > will take someone to get the details right from scratch. But, no, it > isn't likely to match Google in terms of either reliability or ease of > use - and especially in searchability. With no previous experience of Linux and with no hand-holding from anyone, I switched from Windoze to Centos 5, installed Exim and it worked straight from 'the box'. No delays, no struggle, no bewilderment, no problems; Exim just worked like a dream come true. I use Evolution as the mail client. No wonder I genuinely adore Centos. There is nothing as good as it. -- Paul. England, EU. Our systems are exclusively Linux. No Micro$oft Windoze here.