Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon December 14 2009, Jon Dowland wrote:If you run your mail on a dynamic IP you will probably find many sites rejecting it -- it may be listed in a PBL such as http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/ (either now, or in the future). I'd recommend relaying your outbound email via either your ISPs smtp server or another one you have access to.so, rather than using DynDNS, if I just go to my ISP and get a static IP, that will get me an MX record? Am I chasing all this because I don't have a static IP?
Normally when you get a domain name, you should get the facility to edit the name servers zone file for the domain. You then point the MX records where you like - just point it/them at this same static ip.
MX records have a priority and you canhave several and point them at different places so that you can have a backup server manage your mail. My domain managing company gives me at least two but I don't do that, I point them both at the same place, and despite my IP address ocassionally disappearing (it is dynamically allocated via dhcp and when it does change I have to manually change my nameserver records to correspond and then wait for it to propagate round the internet) mail for me generally just queues and gets sent when I appear back.
-- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk