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on the doing SMTP yourself thing - i really wish this worked (it seems to me that admins who block dsl addresses are soulless anti-geeks that have forgotten everything that's good about the internet), BUT i just ended up with a dynamically assigned address that had previously been used for spam (presumably it was a windows machine that had been owned) and it is no fun trying to get things working when you've been seriously blacklisted (dsbl won't unlist unless you have an MX DNS entry...). people were deleting my mail silently - turns out my parents hadn't been getting my letters home, people i worked with weren't getting my emails etc etc. but anyway, what i now do is the following: - exim on my linux server sends local mail to local mailboxes and external mail to my isp's smtp machine - my web page provider receives email and stores it - every 10mins or so i use getmail (pop3) to pull mail from the web page provider (across ssh) - my own mail is filtered with procmail (inc spam ...  more
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