[ale] mail server with dynamic IP?

[Michael Trausch]

Email. Is. Not. Private.

It does not matter who is hosting it. Unless you are using openpgp or
s/mime, it ain't private. Period.

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On Jan 20, 2011 9:54 AM, "Tim Watts" <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> Thanks Chuck. Yeah, I'm getting bearish on the whole "home mail server"
> idea. It's much more involved than a web server and seems to require
> redundancy to be viable.
>
> I may look at what aSmallOrange.com has to offer, as Paul suggested. The
> unmovable requirement for me is keeping my email address. Whether that's
> hosting mail on my own VPS, using another mail hosting service or
> finding a more reliable forwarder doesn't really matter to me. But the
> VPS sounds like the more interesting approach. It has to be cheap
> though. I'm paying $40/yr now for the forwarding and I'd really rather
> not go above that.
>
> Privacy is important to me as well -- more on principle than anything.
> In that regard my confidence in google is pretty low.
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 06:38 -0500, Chuck Peters wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:21 PM, 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> Chuck
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