On 10/26/20 4:16 PM, R. Diez wrote:
Why don't you configure all stuff internally and ask your provider to
relay
the e-mails from and to you via "smart relay"? You will communicate
only via smtp and only with your provider,
> [...]
When you are a small business or a volunteer-run club or charity, you
don't ask your provider. You have no leverage. You may not even be
able to change provider so easily.
Besides, the way you suggest means opening a SMTP port to the outside
world. A security risk and more work at the firewall etc.
From what I gathered to date, there should be nothing wrong with
collecting e-mails from a catch-all/multidrop POP3/IMAP4 mailbox, so I
will carry on pursuing this method.
Regards,
rdiez
You will open the smtp port only to your provider. The provider will
receive mails for your domain and will send your mails for outside
world. He can relay them to you on an arbitrary port you can open only
for that server. You may have right you can't ask him this kind of
setup but if they already run an e-mail server ( and most of them
actually do that) it is not such a big effort to add two lines in their
server config, it cost nothing to ask :) That will allow you to run a
complete mail suite almost as in the "real world".
