[kwlug-disc] So, I took the plunge... Mail In A Box

[Chamunks]

@bob, I have home DSL and from what I discovered in the past is that they
only offer static IP's for home users via their DSL offerings.

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 9:48 PM bob+kwlug at softscape.ca <bob+kwlug at softscape.ca>
wrote:

> > You could run a MIAB at home if you have a company like Teksavvy which
> > will give you a DSL based Static IP which is the only chance you'll have
> > to run a SMTP/POP/IMAP/etc server at home.
>
> I was looking to get the business cable from Teksavvy (since that's the
> only way you can get a static IP from them on a Cable service... via
> MLPPP!). I read through the terms of service since it would have been on a
> multiyear commitment and found that they block port 25, period. I called
> them to ask about that and the response I got was that port 25 and a few
> other mail transport related ones are blocked. No exceptions. I slammed the
> brakes on it since I was kinda on the fence for the service in the first
> place and it would primarily have been to self-host my email at home, so
> completely defeated the purpose. Went with a dedicated server at OVH
> instead.
>
> This was at least a year ago, so YMMV now. I know this is slightly
> off-topic, but wanted to point that out so anyone thinking about this
> should pay attention to their ISP's TOS.
>
>
> > I don't know anything about the ISP mail relays but maybe?  It would fall
> > outside of my scope though because I would imagine that my ISP's email
> > relay would cost more money and I'm already renting this VPS for a
> OpenVPN
> > instance.
>
> I suspect you could relay through any service you had an account with that
> allowed something like Auth-before-SMTP or authenticated SMTP. If you used
> a mail client on Gmail or o365 or whatever, this is how it would send mail
> out through them for relay.
>
> From what I understand about smtp servers, you could even have special
> transports to override directly delivery from your server and instead use a
> relay for specific domains. This way you could say any @gmail.com
> addresses... use this special transport that would then be configured to
> authenticate the SMTP session and cause the provider to allow the relay.
>
> BB
>
>
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