From: Jay Maynard (no email)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 20:38:11 EST
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:29:19PM -0600, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> We've been through this before, Jay. (: A mail server doesn't have to
> live in your den to be yours. And all the ISPs that serve your town do
> provide relay services for their customers, and will cheerfully send
> your mail to Greg for you.
Please try to be a little consistent, Peter...sending this right after
posting a message extolling the virtues of running your own MTA is a bit of
a mixed message.
Neither of the available ISPs runs their service well enough for me to trust
it. They do good just to provide basic connectivity. When you live in a town
of 11,000 that's the biggest one for 50 miles in any direction, you learn to
live with things like that.
Now, if there was a way to configure Postfix to try resending through a
smarthost after receiving a rejection on an attempt to send mail, I'd use
their server purely as a fallback...but not ever as a primary relay. Would
you trust an ISP that can't even keep their DNS servers running properly to
relay your outbound mail? (That's the other one.) Or an ISP that refuses to
set up reverse DNS to your specifications? (Since, after all, everyone here
claims that that's part of their job.) (Yes, Greg, I'm going to call them
tomorrow, just in case they've changed their policy.)
As for "it doesn't have to live in your den to be yours", where would you
suggest I find a hosting service that 1) allows me to run the box, 2) isn't
a spamhaus, and 3) won't charge me $100/month for the privilege?
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