FW: [Novalug] email server with dynamic IP

[Ed T. Toton III]

Thus spake Greg Faust:

> Thanks for all the replies.  I've managed to get this working with 
> everyones advice.  Luckily my ISP (comcast, former adelphia customer) 
> doesn't block port 25.  My current setup is as follows:

Wow, you're right. Under adelphia it was blocked... I haven't checked 
again since they reassigned the IP blocks. Heh, I can stop relying on 
fetchmail so heavily now. :)


> So in this scenario I think the Primary MX record would point to my 
> server, the backup to his primary server, and then his server would need 
> to be configured to forward mail to my server.  Sound about right? 
> Thanks in advance... this is my first mail server so I'm learning a lot!

Sounds pretty good. Have you tested it out yet?


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