[GRLUG] help with setting up email server

[Matt Behrens]

On Feb 28, 2013, at 11:15 AM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, detrix42 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Also, what do I need to do on my DNS record to that I can get emails. I
>> tried to send me a test email from my gmail, but it failed.  So what am I
>> missing?
>> 
> Unless you have a static IP (probably not), don't even try to send/receive
> yourself. Most servers reject a dynamic IP without any other checking
> (except for Google, of course, as they harvest your email address so they
> can sell it).

The way I deal with this and still maintain my own server at home is to have a third party handle my SMTP and put it in an IMAP box and then have fetchmail pull it down and redeliver it to my internal Postfix server.
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