On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > First, I would like to thank everyone for their willingness to help me with > my questions. It was a pleasure to meet those of you who were at last > night's meeting. > > I've gotten a bit of direction regarding my email server question from > talking to several of you last night. My problem is really threefold and > here's where I am at present. > > I need to relocate our internal mailing list. Someone on the list > recommended dotList (http://www.mailmanhost.com). After looking into it I > think the service is cheap enough to consider going that route so I'm > working toward that end. > Our PowerSchool server occasionally violates our email provider's AUP. This > isn't quite like an electronic newsletter because each of the outgoing > emails are progress reports on a per student, per class basis detailing > assignments and student perform ants for the parents. Someone recommended > using an email relay service rather than trying to maintain that myself. If > anyone has recommendations I am all ears. > I'm still thinking I need to set up a small email server here to handle > those automated emails generated by our servers that report on backups and > nightly maintenance. Our email provider has gotten very good about not > allowing them through even though they only go to one or two people. I think > it's because in some places I cannot enter all the required authentication > information to send an email. If I can get the other two parts of my problem > handled externally I just need something very simple to do what I'm looking > for here.
My main question was whether your email solution needed to receive incoming mail from the outside world. From what you've described here, I think that you don't, or that your regular email provider is more than sufficient for that purpose. In that case, I would suggest that you simply disallow incoming connections on port 25 from the outside world to your email server and host it locally. The email has to go out your pipe anyway; you might as well deliver it directly, rather than relaying it through a third party. And by not allowing incoming connections from the outside world, you avoid the risk that your mail server will be used for relaying spam. -- Tilghman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
