Re: Understanding my recurrent network connectivity problems
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:54:17AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>
> Umm, to run a proper mail server, you wouldn't and probably
> shouldn't be able to use a dynamic IP.
>
> The MX record for mail must have a "real" A record that has a fixed
> IP; and that A record's IP should have a proper reverse DNS --
> anything less and you'll have all sorts of trouble sending /
> receiving mail directly from / to your own mail server.
You can use the email server of your provider as a smarthost to send
the outgoing mail while still receiving it directly. I'm not saying
it's ideal, and I'd rather have a static IP, but it can work
reasonably well. I didn't say anything about outgoing mail in my
previous post :)
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