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On 09/11/2016 02:52, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> 1. Do it yourself and do it properly - get a static IP from your ISP |
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>> 2. Don't do it yourself and do it properly - use your ISP's mail |
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>> relays, or use a relay provider |
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> Can you give an example of a relay provider... or do you mean |
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> smtp.gmail.com or the like? |
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You could use gmail but I get the feeling that's not what you are after. |
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That market tends to be localized, especially if you want some |
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individual attention for a reasonable fee. Around here there's for |
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example Synaq but you are nowhere near Johannesburg so that won't help |
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you much. |
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Recommendations from folks closer to where you live and work is what you |
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need, it's a very mature market so someone will offer what you need |
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> I tried several times to use newsguy's smtp servers, They host one of |
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> my pop3 email accounts, but never could get it working. I have got |
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> fastmail.com smtp server to work and gmail too but with either, sooner |
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> or later something changes and I'm left dinking around with it for a |
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> week until I finally hit on the right formula. |
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>> Why are you even trying to do this yourself? I do this for a living and |
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>> I can tell you it's a pain in the butt you don't want (*I* don't even |
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>> want it, I shove mail services off onto other teams as fast as I can get |
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>> them to take it...) |
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> I think you just convinced me it is a bad bad idea. thanks. |
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> Nice to hear from a veterano mail dude. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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