Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-25 Thread Sahil Tandon
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Receiving mail directly will be more possible, but tricky. You will need to use a dynamic DNS system. Also do consider uptime and reliability. In the old days, if one MTA couldn't reach another it would hold stuff in its queue for four or five days. Now, most MTAs

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: In the old days, if one MTA couldn't reach another it would hold stuff in its queue for four or five days. Now, most MTAs appear to be configured to give up after 24 hours. In which case those mail systems are

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-25 Thread RW
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:49:56 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Receiving mail directly will be more possible, but tricky. You will need to use a dynamic DNS system. Also do consider uptime and reliability. In the old days, if one MTA couldn't

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. Running your own MTA is one of those sysadmin rights of passage. It's

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:22:34 +0100, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running your own MTA is one of those sysadmin rights of passage. It's unfortunate that the general levels of spam and other nastyness around the net make it so much harder than it should be nowadays. Things that are

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread User Lenzi
I am very happy with: Sendmail (the one that comes with Freebsd...) and messagewall (in the ports). if you need, I can send you the 3 config files... that make it all happen. with this software you can: 1) receive email directly to your computer (provided that port 25 is open). 2) filter

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:06 PM 8/24/2008, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure what they allow, ie:

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 24, 2008, at 1:06 PM, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup I have my email hosted by fastmail.fm. I am extremely happy with them. (They really understand IMAP and the needs to power email users). and

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread George Davidovich
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:06:25PM -0400, pete wrote: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Receiving mail directly will be more possible, but tricky. You will need to use a dynamic DNS system. Also do consider uptime and reliability. In the old days, if one MTA couldn't reach another it would hold stuff in its queue for four or five days. Now, most MTAs