a new sendmail question

[Les Mikesell]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>
>> I have tried to poke around in google for this before,
>> but never found a satisfactory answer.
>>
>> Say I'm not running my own server, I don't have a domain name,
>> i.e., a typical home computer.
> 
> I got mine from DynDNS.  It is free for home use, allows me to
> "register" my IP address from my ISP (DynDNS publishes the MX records
> for me), and I can run sendmail locally to both accept incoming emals
> and send outgoing emails.

However, many places will reject email sent directly from dynamic 
address ranges, so even if port 25 isn't blocked you may have to relay 
through your ISP server or a 3rd party service to keep it from being 
rejected as spam.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com