On May 4, 2006, at 4:22, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Jeff Rife wrote:
If my ISP mail server allowed me to use my domain as a return address
in e-mail that is passed through it, this would be a good solution.
It
doesn't, and neither do most ISPs. So, you'll never get my e-mail,
but
Well, guys, I have to apologise for starting this thread :|
But this is my problem, too - and the problem of many others in my
local area:
+ The (mail) providers either:
1) don't allow SMTP/POP/IMAP, but web only, or
2) mangle the From header (well, one even placed the telephone number
there until recently!!), or
3) charge non-slight fees for the proper amount of virtual mail
addresses.
+ Changing ISP seems to be easy out there, but I faced lots of
problems in this field, because there are many companies selling
_exactly_ the same product, perhaps add this or that service.
+ Also, the bandwidth of non-large, non-monopolistic ISP is often
limited.
+ Webhoster for "a slight fee" have some dumb POP3 mail boxes, but no
mail relay feature.
Dreamhost's base service costs $7.95/mo if you prepay ($9.95
otherwise, I think).
You could, I think, literally just use it as your outbound SMTP relay.
Or you could throw on your web hosting and such. (it also does mail
hosting, with POP, IMAP, procmail, and SpamAssassin) I don't know if
they give you access to setting up something like mimedefang (if it's
not a virtual server, probably not). If not, I'd probably use it just
for web hosting and outbound SMTP, and still do my inbound SMTP at
home.
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