Recently I decided to move to Amazon Web Services and I'm happy with my decision, but I'm not sure if I should outsource the whole email-thing, because it seems to require a considerable administrative effort to keep everything running smooth.
My production servers are running on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
and I gave iRedMail a shot for a quick mail server setup.
For DNS handling I use Route 53 and created an A Record which points mail.mydomain.com
to the Elastic IP of my EC2 instance, which runs the mail server. I also created a MX Record with this value: 10 mail.mydomain.com.
– is that config ok?
Sending Mails works like a charm, but I can't receive them.
I have to admit that I'm not really interested how the internals of email delivery work and I'd really appreciate if someone can point me to a good provider for scalable (in- and outbound) email solutions. SendGrid looks really nice and has some big testimonials, but they online care about my outbound traffic.