[ale] mail server with dynamic IP?

[Collin Pruitt]

As Michael said, your rDNS entry or IP range is probably in quite a few blacklists.

Also, depending on your ISP, it could very easily be a violation of their Terms of Service to run a email server on anything but a business-class connection, and then you had might as well get a static IP address. Others may require you to smarthost your email out through the ISP's own MTA.

If you -really- want to run your own email server, it would probably be far easier to just get a VPS to run it off of. It'll save you time and heartache from dealing with your ISP.

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:21:16 -0500
Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:

> I'm losing confidence in the mail forwarding service I use and am
> thinking of dropping it. This may be just the excuse for me to set up my
> own mail server at home, which is a project I've wanted to do for a long
> time. But here's the thing: I don't have a static IP address. Would this
> be a horribly foolish thing to embark on if I don't?
> 
> My server is up 24x7 and my IP spontaneously changes maybe once a week
> or so. Sometimes it will change several times a day. I have my own
> domain and monitor for IP changes every 5 minutes so I can update the
> DNS.
> 
> I don't think my ISP blocks port 25.
> 
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