[OT] Home Email Server?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 12 March 2009, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Alan Dacey wrote:
>> I believe that you can re-map the ports on your machine so that the
>> 'standard' ones can be changed.  For example you can remap port 443 to
>> 56189.  You could then ssh to port 56189 and the software inside your
>> machine would never know the difference.  Unless your ISP blocks
>> everything, you are good to go.  I have not done this, yet, but I have
>> read about it doing research to set up my own home ubuntu server.
>
>I routinely (as in always) tell ssh to use a port above 10000.  Saves a lot
> of usage by the script kiddies who want to beat on port 22.

And my logs from dd-wrt indicate they spend a lot of time looking at ports 
above 30,000.  Pick it carefully.

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