Re: How to work with portable mail server?
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:46:08PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 02/12/08 20:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:26:53AM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
> >> I'm using exim as my local mail delivary system and i started to wonder :
> >> is there a way to use exim to get mails also from the net ?
> >
> >> Althow i know that it can be done using 24 working server that uses
> >> dyndns / no-ip etc.
> >>
> >> but what about when my mail server is on a laptop that can be offline
> >> for 10-12 hours or even days.
> Although he hasn't directly said this, I get the impression that he
> doesn't use his ISP's mail service.
Well, then I think he will run into trouble getting his mail accepted as
non-spam if he tries to be a mailserver that doesn't have a continuous
presence on the internet at a fixed IP. Otherwise, he's expecting the
sender's email server to hold onto mail destined for him and rely on
their retry rules. While he may get some messages going, I think the
failure rate will be high.
So the question becomes, why not use the ISP's mail service?
Doug.
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