Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:31, Yuri de Groot wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:56, you wrote: > > > I have had this rejected a number of times by the receiver as I have no > > > reverse lookup for my smtp server as it is on a Dyn DNS setup. > > > > It's irrelevant whether it's on dyndns or not. Relevant

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Yuri de Groot
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:56, you wrote: > > I have had this rejected a number of times by the receiver as I have no > > reverse lookup for my smtp server as it is on a Dyn DNS setup. > > It's irrelevant whether it's on dyndns or not. Relevant is whether the > IP you are using has any reverse lookup a

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I have had this rejected a number of times by the receiver as I have no > reverse lookup for my smtp server as it is on a Dyn DNS setup. It's irrelevant whether it's on dyndns or not. Relevant is whether the IP you are using has any reverse lookup at all. If the ISP you're using at the time doe

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Matthew Gregan wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:25:31PM +1300, Chris Bayley wrote: I have > 1GB of mail sitting on my IMAP server, do you think they would let me away with that ??? For the right price, sure. -mjg h

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Nick Rout wrote: well 1. you may have many client machines (even two is enough to be a pain), so you don't want pop mail, because u end up with half your email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. 2. if you have dialup you ca

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:25:31PM +1300, Chris Bayley wrote: > I have > 1GB of mail sitting on my IMAP server, do you think they > would let me away with that ??? For the right price, sure. -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /|[EMAIL

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Robert Fisher wrote: Apologies to those who consider this a dumb question... I can think of two reasons why one would set up an email server at home. 1/ Mail is readily "served" to workstations from an always on server 2/ Mail can be accessed elsewhere without using "webmail" Neither of thes

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Matthew Gregan wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:50:15PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. Well, if the users don't ask for it, they won't provide it... Having said that, I was doubtful

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Vik Olliver
You actually know what happened to your mail... Vik :v) On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:24, Robert Fisher wrote: > Apologies to those who consider this a dumb question... > > I can think of two reasons why one would set up an email server at home. > > 1/ Mail is readily "served" to workstations fro

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:36:22 +1300 Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if the users don't ask for it, they won't provide it... > > Having said that, I was doubtful of your claim that IMAP is not > generally available from NZ ISPs. I ran a very quick and shallow survey > found that

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:50:15PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in > general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. Well, if the users don't ask for it, they won't provide it... Having said that, I was doubtful of your claim that IMAP i

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Paul William
control ;) On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 11:24, Robert Fisher wrote: > Apologies to those who consider this a dumb question... > > I can think of two reasons why one would set up an email server at home. > > 1/ Mail is readily "served" to workstations from an always on server > 2/ Mail can be access

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
well 1. you may have many client machines (even two is enough to be a pain), so you don't want pop mail, because u end up with half your email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. 2. if you have dialup you can regularly dialu

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
some isp's let you have a number of pop boxes on their server. so then set up your mail server with fetchmail with a number of entries like this: poll pop.isp.co.nz proto pop3 user mayes1 with pass whatever is kerry here this retrieves mail in mayes1's pop box at isp.co.nz and spools it to user

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Andy George
Speed(your client isnt tied up with trying to download 86 emails when you get home if they're collected every 30 minutes), avaliability(the ISP pop server can crash all it likes, your email server can store and send them later), backups(the "Opps I didnt really mean to send that" factor...), simpli

RE: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
:09 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: Email server for Home Network - why? This is more likely to be a dumb question! What other methods are there to get individual mail for each member of the family (of five)? (And what are the advantages / disadvantages of each method) Kerry

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Jaco Swart
My wife and I tend to send email to each other when we need to pass information on, or get one another to proofread some text, or whatever. I never got round to get internal mail going, so we have to log on and use our normal adresses. The irony is that she goes online through my box when we ne

RE: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-22 Thread Kerry Mayes
This is more likely to be a dumb question! What other methods are there to get individual mail for each member of the family (of five)? (And what are the advantages / disadvantages of each method) Kerry Mayes -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday