On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:47:10 -0400 Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/18 6:45 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:32:15 AM Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > > Yes, but you really need a PUBLIC static IP address, or things > > > tend to > > > > > get hairy. Dynamic DNS will help, but only to a point. And, a > > > lot of > > > > > ISPs really don't like it if you run servers at the edge. > > > > We are currently such a small group, I don't think it will be an > > issue -- if that changes, we can change. > > > > Which - DynDNS or ISP objections? > > The thing about dynamic DNS is that people cache DNS records - mail > sent to the list WILL go to the wrong place on occasion. > > Re. ISP objections - those objections sometimes take the form of > active measures that block various kinds of traffic. Then they're not a proper ISP. I pay for an *Internet* connection, not just the forwarding of a few ports that are convenient for the provider. > > > > Bummer. But maybe another, larger, Linux user group might help > > > you > > > > > out? I expect there might be somebody on this list who might > > > volunteer > > > > > (hint, hint). Maybe somebody at a nearby university - I believe > > > you > > > > > have a few of those in the Lehigh Valley :-) > > > > We've had somebody make such an offer, and we'll probably take them > > up on it -- I sort of wanted to try to set up a small mail list on > > one of my computers, as long as I didn't have to run a web server > > or a *nix style MTA > > > Now that is kind of hard to do. All the mailing list servers that > I've worked with require a rather intimate interconnection with the > MTA that processes mail. And that's before you "wire in" anti-spam > and anti-virus filters. And, you'll need a webserver for access to > various administrative functions, and archive access. Depending on > the list server, you might also require a dbms. Setting up list > services can be an entertaining and educational exercise (also > frustrating), but it's not simple. (Actually, the simplest approach > is using an MTA and managing lists in the alias file.) There's no technical problem to using a local MTA and your ISP's SMTP server as a proxy. -- Joe
