Yeah, I have a similar problem to this. So-far, I've solved it by relaying all of my email inbound and outbound through the VPS I use for my personal websites.
--Ted On 1/23/2011 9:22 AM, Doug Hughes wrote: > On 1/23/2011 10:04 AM, Matthew Barr wrote: >> I'm researching a new build of my mailserver. I'd like to figure out what's >> the best option for dealing w/ Antispam / AV, as well as the other >> processes.. >> >> I know of 2 major choices- do it your self, or outsource. I'm not >> looking to outsource the entire thing, though.. just AV/AS. >> >> 1. Outsource: Postini, or other providers. I'm open to suggestions - do >> people like them? Do they price based on inbound address, or domain, or >> volume? >> (I've got very few actual addresses, but that's mostly because there are a >> bunch of aliases. Aliases will likely show up as email addresses to them, >> though.) >> >> There are 2 non-profits being hosted, which might make it easier to justify >> going outside, if there are discounts for them. >> >> >> 2. Do it myself. I'm fairly happy to do it myself, and will need most of >> it anyways - but am trying to figure out which policy daemon to use for >> postfix. Have people started using the multi instance postfix support? >> Milters? or just use amavisd-new, etc. Or maybe Mailscanner.. >> >> I suspect that dovecot is the way I'll go, just for a change from Courier on >> the old server. >> >> >> Yes, it's somewhat silly to do this myself. But I can't go ahead and keep >> up w/ the tech for mailservers at work if I don't keep running one at home. >> Plus I host a few other domains for friends, and nonprofits. We would >> likely use Postini for mail at work, so it's not so bad to use it at "home".. >> > > I'm going through this [painful] exercise right now actually. After > running my own mail server for many years on my own domain, I went > through conversion from an ADSL setup with some static IPs to FIOS with > a single dynamic IP, mostly for bandwidth. What I've run into, is that > my home mail server *no longer works* to speak to a lot of outside > places. They simply refuse connections from dynamic space. I remember > dealing with this years ago when we relocated from MD to NJ, in terms of > getting the big guys to recognize that you aren't a spammer, but now > it's even worse. So, I'm currently (since Thursday when Verizon abruptly > terminated my DSL in the process of conversion), moving all of my email > to google apps for hosted mail and dyndns.com to provide my little home > web server with a connection. It seems to be working, though I'm having > to deal with lags and a little bit of trouble mailing some people in the > interim. > > So, I have dovecot at home, and procmail, and spamprobe, and they all > work great, but I simply don't have a solution for sending email to > people using this setup.. Don't get me wrong, I think that blocking mail > from the entire FIOS netblock is probably a pretty smart thing for most > people to do. Who knows how many of my FIOS neighbors are infected with > spam bots right now. ;) > > it seems like gmail still gives me the management control and all of the > transition tools that this works. > > * this message sent through my entire mailbox and folders moved into > gmail, using the same old mail client. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
