Port 25 and Static/Dynamic IP for Listserve SW .... Problem Solved?

[Piper]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Broughton" <derek at pointerstop.ca>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Port 25 and Static/Dynamic IP for Listserve SW


> Piper wrote:
>
>> Thank you for explaining these expressions.
>>
>> Perhaps others know:
>>
>> Can the port 25 and "dynamic ip" problem be avoided in configuring either
>> Majordomo or Mailman?
>> Or am I back to asking for some new code added to Evolution?
>>
>> How should I instruct my computer shop?
>
> You don't _need_ your mail to go out via your own SMTP server.  You either
> configure your email list to post to your ISP's SMTP server,

If I present this to the puter shop which has my Linux machine, should they 
use Mailman or Majordomo?
It sounds so far like either will do the job.

I have zero familiarity with Mailman and a small amount with Majordomo. I 
know I could put 50 email addresses of the ABC list from Express in 
Majordomo under a list created as ABC and that would allow automatic 
sub-unsub as well as automatic sending to all those on ABC from anyone else 
on ABC. No spamming at all or any other ethical violations and those 2 
criteria are met for the kind of email SW I want.

Problem solved? Shaw ISP has no reason to complain. I am doing the same 
things with ABC in Majordomo as ABC in Express but I have better SW.

"Problem solved" at my end of this is a matter of expressing clearly to a 
puter shop the work I need to have done.

I do not see how it is "not do-able" or unreasonable in any way and nobody 
has yet argued effectively to that effect. If they do,
I am willing to abandon the project. I will just say I made a mistake. 
Anyone want to buy a brand new Linux machine? No sense in throwing good 
money after bad.

 or you post to
> a local SMTP server that runs in "smarthost" mode - and _it_ posts via 
> your
> ISP's SMTP server.
>
> There's no good reason to even try to configure your own SMTP server to
> deliver mail directly from a dynamic IP - because the odds are good that
> your recipients will be blocking you anyway.
>
> In any case, the intersection of list servers like Mailman and Majordomo 
> and
> mail Agents like Evolution is practically non-existent.
> -- 
> derek
>
>
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