Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 19, 2005, at 00:13, Dan Jenkins wrote: What about switching them to Speakeasy on a bare line (no Verizon local service needed) and switching to VoIP (like Vonage) with number portability so they keep their existing number? From their viewpoint, it ought to be invisible and likely would

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Jenkins
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:15, puissante wrote: I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't see how you can maintain a good connection for doing anything when the IP is changing every 15 minutes. Ugh. Yeah, we'll be talking on the video ph

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:15, puissante wrote: I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't see how you can maintain a good connection for doing anything when the IP is changing every 15 minutes. Ugh. Yeah, we'll be talking on the video phone, then *poof*. It's n

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread puissante
Bill McGonigle wrote: ... I've had the same address on my cable modem for over a year, but my parents' Verizon DSL DHCP address (via pppoe) changes as often as every 15 minutes. Dyndns to the rescue for support... I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't s

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:53 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: > I use procmail with postfix. I have used it with Exim, on a hosted > account and I had to do some hackery to get it to work. I still get an > occasional mail from people searching the Exim archives about a hack I > posted to get procmail wo

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Fred of Hydranuke
This is off the topic of this thread, somewhat, but gets back on further down. On Friday 15 July 2005 12:30, Bill McGonigle wrote: ... > But... the warning on the Postfix website remains - allegedly due to > some bitter feelings over the situations years ago. Ah, OSS politics. I use sendmail ext

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:13, Puissante wrote: And am I correct in assuming that Postfix, Exim, and most other MTAs will integrate well with Procmail? Since I make heavy use of Procmail recipies, it would be a no go for me if that were not the case. I use procmail with postfix. I have used it

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Puissante
This is off the topic of this thread, somewhat, but gets back on further down. On Friday 15 July 2005 12:30, Bill McGonigle wrote: ... > But... the warning on the Postfix website remains - allegedly due to > some bitter feelings over the situations years ago. Ah, OSS politics. I use sendmail e

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-17 Thread Greg Rundlett
Thanks for all the good info...I should be able to put this into practice. It would probably be a good panel presentation for a meeting sometime. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlu

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Randy Edwards
> How would I go about moving those services to my local machine > (offering email accounts to family too) with the least amount of > hassle and worry? The exact answer is easy -- just set up the services on your home IP address and switch your DNS (at whoever has your domain's DNS) to poin

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:06, Paul Lussier wrote: > Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I receive my email through rundlett.com, and a healthy dose of spam > > through freephile.com; both of which are externally hosted through a > > web hosting provider that includes email service and e

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:54, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Postfix (SMTP) MailScanner (spam/virus/phishing) Courier/Dovecot (IMAPd -- I use both, and think they both work well) Squirrelmail (webmail -- lots of functionality, not much overhead) Amazing how we all converge on the same solutions. :) One t

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[Someone wrote something, but I didn't want to clutter my beautiful prose] I'm going to come out and agree with Paul: Postfix is a Good Thing. So's Exim. (They both roughly replicate the functionality of Sendmail, but do away with the confusion, and most of the security glitches, of Sendmail.)

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 15, 2005, at 00:36, Greg Rundlett wrote: and just serve it from home Ditto what Brian said and make sure the ISP you use for home access will allow port 25 inbound before you move the domains. :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread crschmidt
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 12:36:32AM -0400, Greg Rundlett wrote: > ... How would I go about moving those services to my local machine > (offering email accounts to family too) with the least amount of > hassle and worry? Sent this to the list with a bad "from" before, so this may come through twice

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I receive my email through rundlett.com, and a healthy dose of spam > through freephile.com; both of which are externally hosted through a > web hosting provider that includes email service and easy-to-manage > web-based administration of user accounts/a

RE: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Brian
tt > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:37 AM > To: GNHLUG > Subject: domain (especially email) hosting from home > > > Is the short answer 'learn sendmail'? I hope not. I know > that there are a variety of SMTP servers, and

domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-14 Thread Greg Rundlett
I know this has been discussed a lot over time, but I'm still not familiar with setting up email from home to know what the best plan of action is. What I want to do is move my (low traffic) domains like rundlett.com off an ISP and just serve it from home where it would be much easier for me to ma