CenturyLink/DirectTV

[Eric Shubert]

On 07/28/2012 11:51 AM, keith smith wrote:
> I home office and twitched from a consumer package to a business package
> so I would have the ability to run a server.  I ran a server part time
> for testing only.  I was testing out the Qmail Toaster.
>
> I had a bad experience running a server about 10 years ago.  I left the
> email relay open and was exploited.  Since then I have been leery of
> running server out of my house.

With Cox, you pretty much need a business account to run a mail server. 
Otherwise, you'd need to have DynDNS or some other service provider 
handle your DNS and both incoming and outbound email, which is still 
less expensive than a business account, but it gets to be a bit of a 
pain, especially if you plan to have more than a single domain. Cox 
residential used to block port 80 as well, so if you'll be doing web 
sites, you'll need a reverse proxy somewhere.

On the DSL side of things, I've been running Qmail Toaster on 
residential DSL since May'06 or so. I had a dynamic address, and used 
DynDNS for DNS and outbound email. When they started blocking port 25 a 
few weeks ago, I ponied up for a static address (still a residential 
account). The additional cost is pretty much offset by the savings in 
not having to use DynDNS for DNS and outbound email any more.

Sorry to hear about your open relay experience, Keith. That's not so 
easy to do any more, and there are numerous online checkers that will 
test your configuration for you. FWIW, I took over leadership of the 
Qmail Toaster project the beginning of this year, and we'd love to see 
anyone interested join us on the qmail-toaster email list. I know we 
have a few users in the Phoenix area, and hundreds others world wide. We 
just finished setting up our DNS infrastructure, and we have 13 DNS 
servers on 5 continents. Overkill, I know. It's nice to see what the 
community can do though. I'm eager to see what else is in store.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'