Rogers high-speed internet

John Macdonald john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 23 18:38:48 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 11:30:57AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> John Macdonald wrote:
> >>All the larger generic consumer oriented ones have that.  I don't
> >>consider having ssh access to my PC to make it a server.  A web server
> >>or mail server would be another issue.
> >>    
> >
> >That's the killer for me.  I want to run my own mail server
> >to support my own domain; having a web server is something I
> >haven't done but if I did it would not be to broadcast info to
> >the world, but to allow me remote access to things on the local
> >system (which I currently do through ssh), so an ISP-provided
> >web site is of no value.  The mail "server" is only handling
> >my family's email, nothing commercial, so I view terms that
> >forbid it as carelessly attempting to solve a problem that is
> >not relevant in my case with an overbroad policy.
> >  
> 
> I run an IMAP mail server on my home network.  However, it's not 
> accessible from the net, except via VPN.  I use fetchmail to bring the 
> mail in.

It's the SMTP server that is the significant issue for me -
the one that fetchmail would connect to.

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