On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:09:55AM -0700, JD wrote: > On 08/17/2010 09:36 AM, Tim wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 15:24 -0400, Gregory Woodbury wrote: > >> Get a dyndns.com name for your router public ip address and set up at > >> dyndns to get mail delivered to that name. > > Of course, if your IP changes, then mail is going to get screwed up > > during the time it takes for next delivery attempt to go to your new IP > > address, instead of the old one. > > > > Dyndns, and other such things, are useful for giving yourself a hostname > > that you can control, to a static IP. But aren't going to be much good > > if you have a dynamic IP. Private webserving's easy enough with a > > varying IP, mail serving's another matter. > > > > > My router's public IP address is static. So that is not a problem. > But per other replies on this list, it sounds like > a complicated puzzle to solve. > I have a dyndns name. and it maps onto my router's static IP > address. But I think at&t is blocking port 25. > I will have to talk to them and see if they will open it up. > I really need a tutorial on how I can accomplish this when > my sendmail machine is on a LAN. some years ago, one of those dynamic dns providers (it might have been dyndns--I can't really remember with any certainty) offered a non-free service where they would reroute smtp traffic for your domain to some port other than 25, so you could put your sendmail (or whatever) on some non-standard port, the whole point being to foil the gestapo-like rules of some ISPs. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines