reply to Gene's reply-to address

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 11:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> >I'm quite happy with my own ISP and the services they provide, and
> > if it wasn't for the fact that I'm such a geek, I'd be using their
> > mail, DNS, web etc. services. However, I choose not to; I run my
> > own servers for these services for my domain, and thus do not
> > suffer from any cock-ups other than my own - I use my ISP for
> > connectivity only. I guess that would be an option for you too?
> >
> >Paul.
> 
> No darnit, the TOS specificly precludes running a server of any kind, 
> and they do actively block port 80.  Top that with my firewall set to 
> block all non-established incoming, and a mail server here would be 
> unreachable anyway.  I'd have to setup an entry for a dmz, and alias 
> that to another port 1:1 to do that, although I have considered 
> setting up qmail a time or two.  I'd have to setup something to keep 
> me uptodate at dyndns of course as my IP address does change 
> occasionally.
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you need to think outside of the box...

you can run your own mail server inside your network - use 'fetchmail'
to get email from a pop/imap mailbox from pretty much anywhere. Then you
have full control over spam filtering, virus scanning, procmail/sieve
filtering, etc.

Craig