Free mail relaying services
Koen Smeets
First of all, let me make clear that I am not asking this question because I
want to spam anybody! The situation is as follows:
Recently, I registered my own domain and set up my own server for the
domain. Everything is working fine: I can send mail from the server, but I
can't receive mail to it. This is because my provider blocks all incoming
traffic on port 25 (yes, sendmail) to my server. They say they won't lift
the block :-(
Now I am looking for somebody who will accept mail for my domain and then
relay it to my own server on any other port than 25, analogous to the
freeDNS service. I am willing to provide a service in return.
I know this may be more of a sendmail related question, but unfortunately my
post to comp.mail.sendmail didn't get any reactions.
Sincerely,
Koen Smeets
Alistair Mann
news:8iq841$o66$1...@news.tudelft.nl...
This question crosses DNS and mail in general rather than Sendmail in
particular.
If you have your own domain, then find out where email to that domain is
currently directed. Is it going to a POP3 box? An SMTP server with provider
who won't redirect to you? Either way, explore the option of using
'fetchmail' to pick up the email and send it on towards your own Sendmail
machine.
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Alistair Mann
Koen Smeets
I set the MX-record for the domain to the machine to which inbound traffic
on port 25 is blocked (I maintain my own DNS for this domain). My ISP (a
university) won't accept mail for the domain either. Which I can understand.
Anyway, thanks for the advice to look into fetchmail, but that still leaves
me with the problem of finding an SMTP-server which will accept mail for my
domain. I would like to keep the solution to my problem as simple and as
cheap (poor student ;-)) as possible. I was hoping I could easily find
somebody who would accept and then relay mail (of modest volume) for my
domain, but I've learned...
Sincerely,
Koen Smeets
Alistair Mann <via...@lgeezer.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Alistair Mann
From: Koen Smeets <sh...@kvz.tudelft.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Free mail relaying services
> First of all thanks for your reply.
>
> I set the MX-record for the domain to the machine to which inbound traffic
> on port 25 is blocked (I maintain my own DNS for this domain). My ISP (a
> university) won't accept mail for the domain either. Which I can
understand.
I don't. Why not? If the smtp machine is yours, then they have no need to
worry about storage. If the machine is properly configured, they have no
need to worry about spam / bandwidth.
> Anyway, thanks for the advice to look into fetchmail, but that still
leaves
> me with the problem of finding an SMTP-server which will accept mail for
my
> domain. I would like to keep the solution to my problem as simple and as
> cheap (poor student ;-)) as possible. I was hoping I could easily find
> somebody who would accept and then relay mail (of modest volume) for my
> domain, but I've learned...
Email me with more detail about load / content etc; I might be able to help.
--
Alistair Mann
linu...@my-deja.com
Brian
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