[PLUG] looking for secure space for a mail server

[logical american]

>> On Jun 18, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Michael Rasmussen<michael at michaelsnet.us>  wrote:
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>> To stress "As others have suggested, you may be able to use a VM" - at my final job before retirement (Large bank, Fortune 500, etc) everything possible was migrated to in-house VMs.
>> I want to say mail services were an early migration. In any case, the entire mail infrastructure was run on virtual servers.
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>> There's no need for a physical server.
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> This is your opinion. We're not trying to determine if a VM is capable of running *a* mail server. We're trying to determine what the requirements of *his* mail server are, because that drives whether a physical server is required.
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> There may be a security requirement such as "no AES key leakage to other tenants". In this case, he may not be able to use a VM. There are people in the crypto community who believe that any system that needs secure crypto should not be virtualized.
I need a secure crypto system, hence physical. Too much can go wrong 
with a virtual system. Who really owns the virtual system? Not you!