<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Avi Schwartz wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4595B075.9050002@cfftechnologies.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Colin Brace wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 12/30/06, Avi Schwartz <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-users874@cfftechnologies.com"><ubuntu-users874@cfftechnologies.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">By "direct" I take it to mean incoming mail is delivered directly to your MTA... but how do you do this if you don't have a permanent IP number? Your MX record needs to point to a permanent address, no? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">I don't have a static IP for 3 years now and I still have my own domain and everything works. Sites like dyndns or freedns (there are others too, but I am only familiar with dyndns) come to the rescue. You install a small program on your machine (some routers even have it built in!) and when your ISP changes your IP, the program connects to the that company's site and updates your DNS records. It has worked very well for me. Avi </pre> </blockquote> I use no-ip for the same thing. Works like a charm. My website is hosted at home (personal one not the business one). I use fetchmail, dovecot and postfix to d/l my and my families many email accounts into one imap account each, linked to our logins, I have SSL imap and squirrelmail available for offsite access to these imap accounts and it works well. Fetchmail is a bit of a resource hog, but it and the mail all run on their own server not the desktop so this is not really a problem. Squirrelmail can't use my normal yahoo smtp account to send, but can use my ISPs account so I can send and receive whether I be at home or behind the work firewall. A bit of a pain to decipher and set up, just ask Wade Smart ;-), but well worth it if you travel, have multiple mail accounts or multiple machines at home. <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Kind Regards Russell ================== <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.windsorcycles.com.au">www.windsorcycles.com.au</a> bikes.no-ip.info Linux user #369094 ================== </pre> </body> </html>