Dave Howorth wrote:
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:25 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Just to clear up some probable misunderstanding: do you mean that your server receives the mail and then sends it onwards to your ISP? THAT is forwarding. If you mean that you have a domain which is hosted by your ISP and the mailserver of your ISP is the MX for that domain, that is NOT forwarding.
I don't have a server. Company A hosting my domains receives the mail and forwards it to my ISP (company B) and I pick it up from there with POP3.
Weird construction. (^-^) Why not poll the Server of Company A directly? The trouble with forwarding is, that different methods of determining spam might lead to blocking, if Company B considers the server of Company A as a source of spam.
If you want to set up your own server the basic setup for Postfix/Cyrus is relatively simple.
I still see a lot of traffic on this list from people with problems! They're ably helped by you and others but it still looks like more hassle than I'd like :(
Of course. I only said that the basic setup is relatively easy. I didn't say anything about troubleshooting. (^-^)
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 19:13 -0400, Razi Khaja wrote:
I just started using the google service for my own domain. Its very easy to setup and the standard edition is free so its worth a try. After trying it, if you dont like it you can always cancel the service. The good thing about the google service is that you can be pretty sure that your mail server wont go down (since you wont be admin'ing it, google will) and you wont have to become an "expert in mail servers".
Thanks, Razi. I'll investigate this - it sounds like what I'm looking for.
It's definitely a better choice than to start your own server without knowing much about SMTP and IMAP. One caveat is that I simply don't trust Google to handle my data. They are a business in the first place, so they have to get some value out of it in a currency you don't see at first glance. -- Sandy List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org