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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:22:55
Message-Id: 435D095D.8000701@veldy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] inhouse email by Mark
1 Mark wrote:
2
3 > Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of
4 > bringing email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting
5 > provider? My plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in
6 > the DMZ, so the internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL
7 > provider we use will host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch
8 > firewall already in place, but this is the first step we've taken
9 > toward making anything available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
10 >
11 You might want to find a provider to be your secondary MX so that email
12 will get queued and forwarded upon failure of your DSL or your server.
13
14 Tom Veldhouse
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