Peter wrote:


How about a different approach - move your email onto a hosting company who
already manage mail servers, and thus avoid the time and expense of solving
the problem with scripts, firewalls, running a server, electricity, etc.. ?

I have three different mail domains, two for hobbies, one for a small
company. All running on various hosting firm's machines. We don't seem to
suffer serious downtime from the hosting firms, nor spam problems. Costs are
a few tens of pounds per year (actually £25-£50 per year, but that includes
website hosting).

All of the hosts offer POP3 connection. One offers IMAP-4, though we decided
after trying that we don't really need it. One offers the ability to fork
inbound email; so important business incoming is sent to both the main
mailboxes (accessed through POP3), and also duplicate copies into a HotMail
(free) account. Thus if we loose our local mail files, the backups fail,
and loose access to our ISP, we still have access to the mail archive on
HotMail !



regards,


- Nigel


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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 16:32:22 UTC, Peter
<occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

OK until I got to this part. What it the sender has a similar system?

Generally, if I get a challenge like that I simply give up.

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Peter <occassionally-confused@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
It depends on your budget, but could you rent a virtual server from someone
on which to run your sendmail? The mail that you've accepted gets forwarded
by some other means (a VPN tunnel, for example) to your DSL server. Or
mail clients can pick it up from the virtual server directly.

Theo