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It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your |
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current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you |
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advertise it.. |
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I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got |
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my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing |
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list traffic and other correspondence which is non critical, |
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because I can create dedicated aliases which all point the the |
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same ultimate mailbox, making it easy to identify where spammers |
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have been obtaining addresses from, and making it possible to just |
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invalidate the effected address... |
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For person mail that I want to be able to access when I am |
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travelling I use a mail forwarding address which can be |
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pointed at an ISP hosted POP3 mailbox (which is polled using |
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fetchmail when I am home) or when needed can be pointed direct |
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to my home server. |
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Regards, |
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DigbyT |
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:11:02PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: |
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> Mark wrote: |
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> >Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing |
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> >email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My |
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> >plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the |
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> >internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use will |
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> >host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in |
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> >place, but this is the first step we've taken toward making anything |
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> >available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic. |
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> Generally, most mail will sit in a queue for around 3 days before |
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> failing to deliver - but that depends on the host/server. So, the odd |
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> outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :) |
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> Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25 |
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> inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to |
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> find nothing happening! :/ |
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> Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk |
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> ~ www.djnauk.co.uk |
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> "Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants." |
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> ~ Lynn Lavner |
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