<p>Most businesses I know are or have hosted with them. Most businesses just want it to work.</p>
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Sent from my HTC Vision (G2), running Gingerbread.<br>
That is, a phone-like mobile device. :)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2011 7:45 AM, "John" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> *Google*<br>> Google is an advertising company. I'm certain that many companies would <br>
> prefer to not have their email go through a company of that type. For <br>> personal emails, this may be fine, for corporate emails, privacy matters.<br>> <br>> *DHCP*<br>> My connection is DHCP, but my IP hasn't changed in years. Since 1998, <br>
> I've had about 4 IPs total (I recall 3). The last change happened in <br>> 2007. Still, having a 1-2 hour DNS refresh period (IP check every 5 min) <br>> is useful to limit any inaccessible server periods. Not all ISPs allow <br>
> DHCP to last that long and will force IP changes daily.<br>> <br>> Having a secondary MX record (plus server) in an alternate location is <br>> useful to prevent mail loss, even if you have a static IP and data <br>
> center located server(s).<br>> <br>> <br>> On 01/20/2011 06:38 AM, Chuck Peters wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Tim Watts <<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a> <br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:tim@cliftonfarm.org">tim@cliftonfarm.org</a>>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> 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<br>
>> up my<br>>> own mail server at home, which is a project I've wanted to do for<br>>> a long<br>>> time. But here's the thing: I don't have a static IP address.<br>>> Would this<br>
>> be a horribly foolish thing to embark on if I don't?<br>>><br>>><br>>> Friends don't let friends host mail servers on dynamic DNS! You might <br>>> get it to work, but it will bite you when you don't have time to deal <br>
>> with it and you will lose mail.<br>>><br>>> If it isn't too much network transfer I could host it from my linode <br>>> VPS provided you agree not to spam people or do those annoying <br>>> forwards so many people do... And I am sure others on the list could <br>
>> do it as well. How much mail transfer per month do you have?<br>>><br>>> You can also use Google Apps Partner Edition to host it for free, and <br>>> it has quite a good web interface and great spam filtering. We use it <br>
>> for StarrySkies.net mail and have a number of people using it. And I <br>>> also have my dear old mom using it and I have provided her mail as <br>>> well as others since 95/96. If we were not running mailman and <br>
>> wordpress I would consider not running mail servers anymore and host <br>>> it all at Google, the service is that good.<br>>><br>>> It appears you are using dyndns to forward mail to your <br>>> Mindspring/Earthlink DSL, aka dynamic IP. It would work better to <br>
>> host it on Google or a VPS and use a client to download the mail, <br>>> getmail4 to your local machine or your regular client Evolution. And <br>>> continue to send out mail through Earthlink like you are now, through <br>
>> a properly configured VPS or Google.<br>> <br></div>