Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:11:13PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:
> Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to
> purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services.
DynDns maybe? You can create an MX entry for your domain, and if you
can forward all mail from an "other" (like gmail) account, you only
need to set up your mailserver to recieve mail. If you don't want to
send mail directly, you can use the "other" account as a smarthost.
The great advantage is that you can get a full-featured mail server
without a static IP; the disadvantage is that when your IP changes,
there's a chance that mail is being forwarded to the old IP address
where it could eventually be recieved by someone else (But how likely
is that?).
When your server is offline (like when you're on vacation), cancel the
forwarding for the time and pick up the mail from the "other" account
later. I've been using that for more than a year, and now I'm doing it
that way again, and I've never had a problem with it.
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