[Techtalk] Way to not organise a mail server

[Anne Wainwright]

Hi, Maria,

see below ......

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:44:24 -0800
Maria wrote:

|> Anne Wainwright wrote:
|> > Hi,
|> > 
|> > small comment below
|> > 
|> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:57:24 +0000 (GMT)
|> > Chris wrote:
|> > 
|> > |> Hi Maria,
|> > |> 
|> > |> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Maria McKinley wrote:
|> > |> 
|> > |> > Mail servers are not at all easy to set up, but once you get things 
|> > |> > going, you don't have to do too much.
|> > |> 
|> > |> Sorry, but I have to disagree here. If you have a mail server that 
|> > |> receives mail directly from the Internet and you care at all about 
|> > |> blocking spam or viruses, I'd say that you have an unending uphill 
|> > |> struggle ahead of you.
|> > |> 
|> > |> I'd recommend anyone who does care about spam, and doesn't *really* love 
|> > |> the idea of spending several hours a week tending to their mail server, to 
|> > |> let Google do it for you instead.
|> > 
|> > My pet hate is webmail, but fortunately I have my ISP (smarthost?) to
|> > 
|> do the basic spam filtering before I pop it down. With adsl here ports
|> are blocked and we can't send or receive email direct as far as I know
|> so all that hard work is not even an option.
|> > 
|> > Anne
|> 
|> Hi Anne,
|> 
|> Must say I am confused now. How/why are you running a mail server if you 
|> are using someone else's mail server?

I collect email from my ISP. I pop the mail down from my ISP to my server with mpop. Other machines on my business network get the email from my server.

I can't send email out except via the smtp server provided by local telekoms adsl monopoly. I don't think people can send direct to me either, ports blocked by the monopoly, whatever. In any case I switch it all off when I go home. Postfix delivers to the monopoly smtp server.

Is that a server I am running or not? One of my good points is a real proficiency at doing things the complicated way, so feel free to comment.

bestest
Anne



|> 
|> cheers,
|> maria


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