[mythtv-users] OT: servers at home

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Aug 13 20:34:54 UTC 2008


Stuart Larson wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:51:57PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>>> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>>> Ah.  I hope you have a) a static address b) with good 3-way reverse
>>>> DNS, in c) a non-dynamic IP range... :-)
>>> A and B, yes, not sure about C.
>>>
>>> I assume you mention that because some systems reject mail from dynamic
>>> IP ranges. I've never had a problem with mail being rejected though.
>> Yes, there are RBLs that block dynamic ranges, and other places from
>> which mail shouldn't oughtta come.
> 
> I use dyndns to host my DNS, and they have a "Mailhop Outbound" service
> that gives you like... 150 or so outbound relays (which won't be on a RBL)
> a day for $15 a year.  There may be other similar services out there, as
> well.

150 relays wouldn't last me an hour, never mind a day.

I could relay through Apple, they have access on some other port in
addition to 25 and I'm not aware of any traffic limit if you have a .mac
account. Google will do mail for you at a reasonable price as well.

But for my purposes having my own mail server is the best solution, it's
not worth my trying to save $1/day.

But outbound sending of mail is not my problem, I need to receive it on
port 25 for several domains. Dyndns is a good service in many ways, but
it won't solve my problem.

beww


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