[ale] mail server with dynamic IP?

[Michael Trausch]

Most businesses I know are or have hosted with them. Most businesses just
want it to work.

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On Jan 20, 2011 7:45 AM, "John" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> *Google*
> 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.
>
> *DHCP*
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
>
> On 01/20/2011 06:38 AM, Chuck Peters wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org
>> <mailto: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?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
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