On 11/08/2010 12:36 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If all the mail you care to bring into that box is to addressed to > addresses at your pcartwright.com domain, then why don't you simply > change the MX pointer for your domain to the static IP of your Linux > box, and configure Postfix to accept mail for pcartwright.com? I WANTED to do that originally.. that was "MY PLAN" :)
> I.e. why bother with having your mail spooled at some provider, and why > bother paying them for it, when you can do it all yourself? Is the > website hosted on your Linux desktop? If so, just pay a yearly fee for > DNS and have all DNS records point to the static IP of your Linux box > (the public IP on the outside of your broadband NAT router that is). > > I pay TZO $60/year for dynamic or static DNS hosting, and Dotster > $15/year for my domain. So for $75/year I get my domain and I get MX > resolution to my Postfix server, and wildcard A record resolution for > everything else. All email comes straight to my Postfix server, no need > for middlemen and associated costs. I already have a static IP from my ISP, Atlantic Nexus. I CAN do email from them, but there are problems with people & ISPs that will not accept email from static IPs with no "Domain host" behind them.. what am I missing.. > You've mentioned in previous posts that you've got plenty of UPS due to > the weather and tall trees there in Georgia. If you trust the stability > of your Linux box, and you're not monkeying with it regularly and > possibly breaking Postfix/Dovecot, you should go the route I've have, > not necessarily with the same providers. my box stays up all the time.. 24X7X365, except for an ocaissional reboot for.. kernel upgrades, etc.. > What I'm saying is, you've got all the infrastructure in place to host > everything yourself (sans the DNS servers), so as the Nike commercial > says: "Just do it." that IS my goal.. getting IMAP working was a good leap in the right direction. Last time I dropped my domain provider & tried to host it myself, I didn't have the "infrastructure" in place.. DNS, MX... I thought you need two IPs for MX records. or am I confusing things.(again) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4cd83bd3.7050...@pcartwright.com
