Subj : Re: encrypted email providers
To   : acn
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Jun 03 2021 07:16 am

-=> acn wrote to Daniel Path <=-

 ac> While you are absolutely right in the first place, if you want this
 ac> machine to be in your house and you're using a regular internet
 ac> connection, you won't be able to send out many mails as most mail
 ac> servers won't accept mails coming from "home user" IP addresses because
 ac> of all the windows users with malware on their system.

I wonder if setting DKIM and SPF on a home IP would mitigate that or if they 
just block home IP networks.

 ac> So you would either need a "corporate" IP address, a VPN to a server
 ac> somewhere else or something like that.

I used a paid mail redirection service for several years with my BBS - you 
configure them as primary MX for your domain and they transfer mail to you 
over an alternate port. It worked well and was $30/year - plus they provided 
DNS services.

 ac> I'm using a VPS in the first place as my mail server, and the cost for
 ac> this server is also ~ 100 EUR per year.

Those cheap specials on lowendbox.com would work fine for mail services or 
anything else not interactive; I had one with 40 gb of disk, 512 MB of RAM 
and one core for 9$USD/year. I shouldn't have let it lapse at that price.


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