self mail hosting

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 17:47:18 +0300
"E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> 2014-06-08 14:22 GMT+03:00 Efraim Flashner
> <efraim.flashner at gmail.com>:
> 
> > using netvision's smart host shouldn't change my from or reply-to
> > something at netvision?
> >
> No, as long as you are an authenticated user it should pass whetever
> mail you want, it may or may not be flagged as 100% trustworthy since
> it won't be your "official" smtp server, but you may be able to set
> policies that declare that it is a trusted origin server. (
> You can for instance also send you @gmail mail through a smarthost,
> but it will result in a warning showing in gmail that the mail may
> not be from the person since the mail came from a non-google smtp
> server. Also note that the smart host will most likely not use TLS for
> communication between smtp servers (it may use it for you>smarthost,
> depending on how good your ISP is), but you would anyhow only be able
> to do that if you are willing to shell out the required money to get
> a signed certificate (self signed is nice for testing but 3rd parties
> will never accept them [as they should]).

I have my certificate signed by CACert, but if that doesn't look like
enough then I'll probably decide if it's worth it based on the price.
 
> By the way does your ISP even allow incoming port 25 traffic? They
> generally block that in an attempt to stymie spam.
> (Outgoing is often only through the smarthost while incoming is
> generally completely blocked).
> Regards,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
> 

Incoming works completely, I test mailed myself from gmail using my
cellphone.

> >
> >
> > On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 13:31:24 +0300
> > "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > > If you use your ISPs' smart host you should also be OK...
> > >
> > >
> > > 2014-06-08 12:45 GMT+03:00 Vitaly <linux at karasik.org>:
> > >
> > > > You can get static IP for just about 15NIS/month, I have one
> > > > from 012. Regards
> > > > Vitaly
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Efraim Flashner <
> > > > efraim.flashner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I've registered a domain and set up my raspberry pi to recieve
> > > >> and send emails.  Everything seems to be working fine, except
> > > >> that emails that I send to gmail get rejected by google.  I've
> > > >> been told that google rejects email where the reverse-dns
> > > >> doesn't match the dns record, and because I don't have a
> > > >> static IP address there's not much I can do.
> > > >>
> > > >> Has anyone had success getting a static IP address without too
> > > >> much hassle? Currently I'm getting my internet through
> > > >> netvision, but we were planning on switching to 018 for their
> > > >> cheaper prices.
> > > >>
> > > >> Getting a static IP address seems like it would be the easiest
> > > >> option, followed by reconfiguring postfix to use a SMTP relay
> > > >> to send mail through another server, but I'd need to make sure
> > > >> that the header isn't changed (too much) if I do that.  Also
> > > >> I've found keeping my sanity involves interacting with Israeli
> > > >> beaurocracy as little as possible, so I'd rather not call
> > > >> netvision for a static IP since I'm planning on leaving them
> > > >> anyway.
> > > >>
> > > >> If anyone has any experience doing their own mail and want to
> > > >> share, I'd love to hear about it.
> > > >>
> > > >> -Efraim
> > > >>
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