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<b>Google</b><br>
Google is an advertising company. I'm certain that many companies
would prefer to not have their email go through a company of that
type. For personal emails, this may be fine, for corporate emails,
privacy matters.<br>
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<b>DHCP</b><br>
My connection is DHCP, but my IP hasn't changed in years. Since
1998, I've had about 4 IPs total (I recall 3). The last change
happened in 2007. Still, having a 1-2 hour DNS refresh period (IP
check every 5 min) is useful to limit any inaccessible server
periods. Not all ISPs allow DHCP to last that long and will force IP
changes daily.<br>
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Having a secondary MX record (plus server) in an alternate location
is useful to prevent mail loss, even if you have a static IP and
data center located server(s).<br>
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On 01/20/2011 06:38 AM, Chuck Peters wrote:
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<div>On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Tim Watts <span><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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I'm losing confidence in the mail forwarding service I use and
am<br>
thinking of dropping it. This may be just the excuse for me to
set up my<br>
own mail server at home, which is a project I've wanted to do
for a long<br>
time. But here's the thing: I don't have a static IP address.
Would this<br>
be a horribly foolish thing to embark on if I don't?<br>
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Friends don't let friends host mail servers on dynamic DNS! You
might get it to work, but it will bite you when you don't have
time to deal with it and you will lose mail.<br>
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If it isn't too much network transfer I could host it from my
linode VPS provided you agree not to spam people or do those
annoying forwards so many people do... And I am sure others on the
list could do it as well. How much mail transfer per month do you
have? <br>
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You can also use Google Apps Partner Edition to host it for free,
and it has quite a good web interface and great spam filtering.
We use it for StarrySkies.net mail and have a number of people
using it. And I also have my dear old mom using it and I have
provided her mail as well as others since 95/96. If we were not
running mailman and wordpress I would consider not running mail
servers anymore and host it all at Google, the service is that
good.<br>
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It appears you are using dyndns to forward mail to your
Mindspring/Earthlink DSL, aka dynamic IP. It would work better to
host it on Google or a VPS and use a client to download the mail,
getmail4 to your local machine or your regular client Evolution.
And continue to send out mail through Earthlink like you are now,
through a properly configured VPS or Google.</blockquote>
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