Mark wrote:
Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing
email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My
plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the
internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use will
host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in
place, but this is the first step we've taken toward making anything
available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
Generally, most mail will sit in a queue for around 3 days before
failing to deliver - but that depends on the host/server. So, the odd
outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :)
Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25
inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to
find nothing happening! :/
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