On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:22:08AM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote: > bill lam wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Maus wrote: > > > So you *could* set up such software on your box that does the > > > delivery but you probably wouldn't be happy with this solution as some > > > mail providers do not accept delivery attempts from dynamic ip > > > addresses for spam prevention. > > > > More specifically, it needs a mx record in order to delivery email. I > > don't think dynamic ip host will provide you a mx record. If you > > register a domain name, you can setup your own mx records, however if > > spams were sent, it will be blacklisted. > > This is false; you do not need an MX record to send or receive mail.
True, but many email systems will no longer accept email that comes from a system/address with no valid MX record. Yet another spam defense technique. As a result, if you don't have an MX record much of your mail may be rejected, so these days having an MX record is "almost" a requirement. Jeff Kinz > --
