Suggestions for SOHO email service

[Tom Buskey]

On 10/17/05, Ted Roche <tedroche at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My current email situation has broken down, and I'd like suggestions
> on the easiest, cheapest and best solutions for setting email for my
> small business.
>
> Currently, we have Comcast cable and internet in our home and a TDS
> DSL for the home business. On the DSL, we host three domains for web
> serving (It was handy to go downstairs and hit the power button). The
> DSL is dynamic IP, unfortunately, and the local TDS office tells me
> they have no static IPs they can provision (that wasn't what I was
> told initially, and why I bought the line)(and hook, and sinker). Am
> I mistaken, or does a dynamic IP address mean that I can't host my
> own email server?


Nope. However....


I've heard that some dynamic IP addresses are
> rejected as sources of spam. Would relaying outbound email through
> TDS solve part of this?


Yes, relay through your ISP. You can even set up per domain.

My domains are registered with MyDomain.com, who provide an email
> forwarding service at no charge of up to 10 email accounts per
> domain, plus a catch-all account. This lets me feed webmaster@,
> abuse@, support@, sales@ as well as several people's accounts to
> their ISP, gmail, yahoo! or whatever email accounts.


zonedit.com <http://zonedit.com> will forward email also. And let you setup
a dynamic DNS update with this:

lynx -source -auth=LOGIN:yourpasswd '
http://dynamic.zoneedit.com/auth/dynamic.html?host=hostname.yourcomain'



Unfortunately, MyDomain.com has fallen down on the job. After four
> years of near-perfect service, they are dropping, bouncing and
> delaying crucial emails. I need to set something else up.



zonedit.com <http://zonedit.com> is free for 5 domains. I don't know how
many emails. I have 5 or so forwarded.

I'd be comfortable setting up an email server on the TDS DSL line,
> but since the IP address is dynamic, I'm afraid the mail would be
> rejected by some services.
>
> How do other people handle email through their domain when only
> dynamic IPs are available? Or is the answer to host the domains at an
> ISP?



If you're using gmail, you can use their SMTP server. And have your email as
the source as well.

Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
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