At 1:09 PM -0400 5/9/06, Peter Jones imposed structure on a stream
of electrons, yielding:
If anyone is still out there, here's the challenge ....
Currently have a 128K IDSL line running two Macs (running SIMS for
mail and Personal Web Sharing for small websites which I host)
behind static IPs, plus a wireless router serving 3 more client
(user) Macs (these machines are on DHCP). Wireless router has its'
own static IP as well. Bottom line: 3 static IPs on a slow line.
I can get Verizon DSL for this location, but only with Dynamic IPs
... no statics are available.
My objective is to get faster DSL service for my client Macs. It
turns out that the cost to add Verizon DSL (3MB/768KB) for
websurfing is significantly cheaper than upgrading the IDSL line to
512/512.
If I move everything to Verizon, however, I lose my static IPs and
the ability to host my servers.
So my thought is: Use the Verizon mail servers for outbound mail and
web surfing only, and still have my inbound mail servers and my
hosted web servers on the IDSL line.
We're using Apple Mail 2.0.7 on OS X 10.4.6 machines, which does
allow me to use different servers for inbound and outbound mail.
If I've not confused everyone at this time ... any known problems
with this approach?
Only that Verizon's mail servers are broken by design, and as a
result they cannot deliver mail to a lot of addresses.
Will Verizon's configuration allow me to retrieve mail from a
non-Verizon server? I've heard (and experienced) some of the wacky
things they do ... I'm not prepared to fight their notoriously
nonresponsive tech support folks over this.
I've not heard of VZ blocking POP3 or IMAP, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Your plan *should* work, but you need to keep in mind that you will
be dealing with "The Phone Company" in the worst way possible short
of becoming a customer of the "new" AT&T (nee SBC.)
--
Bill Cole
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