On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:04 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:46:22PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
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Limiting the IP addresses that can talk to your mail server certainly ties things down nicely, and I would personally opt for SMTP, but at the same time most of my current mail setups use fetchmail at the moment! This is partly due to current and legacy issues with dynamic IP addresses (and I've never bothered to sort out the SMTP pull setup that Demon use where you notify the SMTP server that you are on line and what your IP address is so it can start delivery - can't remember the acronym off the top of my head).
Do you mean ETRN? Though I thought Demon (I was with them) used something that wasn't ETRN because they had to invent it in the days before POP3 existed even. (... or is it SDPS)
That's the one. I really can't remember whether that is exactly what they used, it was all built into Turnpike when I was hooked up with them, although I must have stopped using that before I left them because I only moved to Nildram when I got onto the Wires only ADSL trial (Demon were just too slow on the ADSL uptake). I'm sure I wasn't still using Turnpike in 2001! I certainly had a Linux firewall in between me and the outside world, so it wasn't handling the connection. Ook, my memory is going!
I am in the process of switching over to SMTP myself, but then I run a business off my connection as well as having around 10 - 15 domains to support in various ways (not all on the ADSL connection for all functions, some only backup/development services). My system will also be working with a mail relay in a DMZ that will handle filtering and a few low volume mailing lists.
Thinking about it I will probably stay with fetchmail as some of the mail has to be fetchmail and I might as well just go for an easy life and get it all that way.
I run my own mail server and apart from my ISP mail (which I don't think gets any, I haven't checked for a while) and the odd webmail account (Gmail and iirc Operamail, I've probably got a Yahoo! and Netscape mail address if I cared to check too). I've got two of my domains migrated across to the ADSL line coming in to my relay mail server. It's not proving a priority job though, and fetchmail is doing fine for now :)
I'm not planning to migrate the rest until I've got the full setup done on the two test ones. Currently the relay doesn't relay (just collects), but then both the internal mail server and the relay are due for rebuilding onto new hardware, so it was more of an experimental setup. The two domains aren't used for mail either, so all I collect is spam (a depressing amount since neither of the domains have ever been used for email or had any addresses published, and the websites are merely holding pages!).
Somewhere I've got a Round Tuit plate, I really must dig it out, there are so many things that would get done if I did ;)