It is posible, but many servers, not all, will bounce you unless you also have an associated MX record for a valid domain name that they can do a reverse lookup on. I did it for many years on a pacbell dsl account.
-sp -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Richard Crawford Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [vox-tech] Can I do this? All I'm asking is whether this is possible, just so I can demonstrate my own lack of knowledge about e-mail and how the internet works. I'm running my RH7.2 computer at home, and I have Pacbell as my DSL provider. When I send out mail, of course, I send it through Pacbell's servers. Is it possible to run a mail server on my own box so that I don't have to send through Pacbell's servers? I understand that I'd have to do some security tightening to make sure no one uses my box for spamming. So... Is it possible? -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
