domain (especially email) hosting from home

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Monday 18 July 2005 12:53 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> I use procmail with postfix.  I have used it with Exim, on a hosted
> account and I had to do some hackery to get it to work.  I still get an
> occasional mail from people searching the Exim archives about a hack I
> posted to get procmail working.  This may have changed in the past few
> years too.

I'm an Exim fan (ie, I used Sendmail before I switched to Debian servers and I 
never looked back.  I never really have tried Postfix though, in all 
fairness.)  Anyway, procmail has never required extra configuration for me.  
That may be in part due to Debian packaging the two so that they play nice, 
but it is just a director before local users that takes advantage of a 
procmail transport when a local user has a .procmailrc in their home 
directory.

> I've had the same address on my cable modem for over a year, but my
> parents' Verizon DSL DHCP address (via pppoe) changes as often as every
> 15 minutes.  Dyndns to the rescue for support...

If you're in the Nashua area, you may be able to get service from ProSpeed (in 
Tyngsboro, MA).  I get 1Mb SDSL from them for $50/month on a naked line.  
That gives me a static IP and they just gave me a reverse DNS entry so that I 
don't have to keep smarthosting through their mail server.  They don't filter 
any ports and really don't care how I use the connection, although I imagine 
if I were to abuse it, they may care more.  
-N