On 11/10/2010 11:28 AM, Eric Myers wrote:
I'm seriously thinking of switching from Time-Warner to Verizon Fios,
but one concern is that I currently run my own e-mail server at home,
and I want to continue to do so. Anybody else using Verizon?
Had any problems?
-Eric
My parents have FiOS and I'm using my own email server outbound using
the mail submission port (port 587) and that works fine. Using port 587
for mail submission is a lot more universal and gets around a lot of
port 25 filtering, so you'd probably want to use that anyway. So have
your mail server listen on port 587 in addition to port 25 and that will
fix that.
As for port 80, what I can say is that running a web server from home
can work with DyDNS but it's a pain in the neck. The one friend I have
doing that on Optimum Online Boost constantly has problems related to
his IP address changing and his dynamic DNS entry not being updated,
thus being unable to get to his own website when he's remote. This all
gets a lot easier when you rent some kind of "box" (which could be a
virtual machine) with a static IP address.
And, wait... if you already have your own mail server then why not
install a web server onto it?
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
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