In reply to a post by Andrue:

In reply to a post by jchamier:

They're both dynamic IP services, no static option. BT's business services have static IP options but MUCH more expensive.

Which is annoying. I'd like to switch to Sky :-/

Sky fibre has "sticky" IP addresses and rarely change.

My IP address only changed after an extend outage cause by a powercut last month, before then I had the same IP address since I upgraded to fibre in May.

Using a service such as DynDNS pretty much gets round any IP address changes.

Edited by simon194 (Thu 13-Sep-12 08:43:44)

In reply to a post by simon194:

Using a service such as DynDNS pretty much gets round any IP address changes.

I'm not keen on it for my email server although if it changes that rarely it might be okay. Still
- it would probably mean switching to using my ISP's SMTP server for outgoing email and that seems a step backward.

Edited by Andrue (Thu 13-Sep-12 10:22:43)

You should use a smarthost when you have a dynamic IP address. You could use gmail as a smarthost (like Sky do )

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

You should use a smarthost when you have a dynamic IP address. You could use gmail as a smarthost (like Sky do )

There was a time when I had all mail go to my domain provider's servers then my server picked it up using POP3. There was a reason why I ditched that but I can't remember what it was.

Up to ten email addresses per domain on Gmail is free. POP3 & IMAP access as well as webmail.

Edit: Also, pretty good spam filtering,

Edited by deleted (Thu 13-Sep-12 13:13:09)

I meant for sending

In reply to a post by Spasch:

Up to ten email addresses per domain on Gmail is free. POP3 & IMAP access as well as webmail.

Edit: Also, pretty good spam filtering,

I need wildcard addresses and don't need spam filtering

My anti spam system involves DEAs based around a wildcard template. Back when I used my domain provider's service I had '*' -> 'me' then my server filtered that as it downloaded it splitting it into:

* Whitelist -> My personal account.
* Blacklist -> bin it.
* Doesn't match the template -> bin it

And I think I've remembered why I ditched it. Using POP3 you can only filter on the 'TO:' header field and spammers started to fake that so it's unreliable. I switched back to my own server so that I could filter on the RCPT TO command which can't be faked.

Running an externally hosted mail server would be fine but the pricing just isn't competitive. My current setup runs on a Fit-PC2 which consumes around 5w an hour which is a piddling running cost.

Edited by Andrue (Thu 13-Sep-12 14:15:23)

Google Apps supports wildcard.