Using fetchmail to download mail from a catchall POP3/IMAP mailbox has
worked well for me in the past when I didn't have a public IP. It can
sift through and work out who the mail is for via the from field even
though all the mail is essentially stored in one box. I would advise
getting a mailbox as large as money can afford + get a spam/antivirus
service.
It then delivers to the MTA of your choice and from there to users
mailboxes. i.e.
<Mailbox Hosting Provider>--------<via
YelloLine>-----<Fetchmail>-------<Postfix>
I'd also recommend routing the outbound mail via MTN's SMTP servers to
speed things along.
Primary and Backup MX's in this configuration are the concern of your
hosting provider so making it slightly simpler to maintain.
Simon
Reinier Battenberg wrote:
Hi,
We could help you with that.
You want to check if your yelloline is giving your a public IP, though. I
think they are in the 192.168.x.x range (or 10.x.x.x) both of which are not
publicaly routable. (McTim, correct the details, if i am wrong ;-)
What might be possible is to have the mail delivered to us, and then pull them
off off our server.
If you manage to get this setup running (using e-box?), you could consider
showing everyone how you did it on the Barcamp!
rgds,
Reinier Battenberg
Director
Mountbatten Ltd.
+256 782 801 749
www.mountbatten.net
On Thursday 07 August 2008 15:06:53 joachim Gwoke wrote:
Hi,
thanks for the opendns tip. I am trying it on my domestic dialup connection
via an MTN yelloline and it seems okay. I am trying to setup a mail server
using a yelloline mainly to relay a few mails and newsgroups. MTN customer
care says static IPs are not given with my current product, Googling and
the RFCs say I can still do it but I need to find a way to backup MX
records. Can I use one domain and mailbox from a provider in town to backup
the mx records of this mail server I plan to setup? or am I dead in the
water with this?
regards
Joachim
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