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[Avi Schwartz]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

> Avi Schwartz wrote:
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>>> All that aside, there's a whole slew of other reasons you don't
>>> want to run a "home server" as a primary mail transport. There's
>>> all manner and form of craziness out there perpetrated in the name
>>> of "the war on spam" for instance. There's a considerable number of
>>> servers which in effect flatly refuse to accept any mail at all
>>> from any IP that it decides isn't in a block that would house a
>>> "real" mail server. RBL's are another such problem. If someone in
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>> That is why I setup postfix to relay via my ISP's mail server.  If
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> Then you're not using your home server as your primary mail transport.
> It's nothing more than a staging area between your mail client and
> something else. Convenient, and useful in many ways, but you just
> confirmed my assertion that you can't cut your ISP or some other "real"
> server out of the equation and still expect to maintain any sort of
> reliability.
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It all depends on the ISP when I was using Speakeasy, I had a static IP 
and I had no problem of being blocked so I was my primary transport.  
Unfortunately, at least in my area, Comcast does not offer static IPs so 
I had to change to relaying through my ISP.  I still receive all my mail 
directly though, and that is more important to me then sending out email 
(I receive a ton more then I send).

Avi