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DYNDNS SERVICES Email, Mailhop, Etc...



On 3/4/2010 8:21 PM, jbk wrote:
> I sent the following to dyndns and at the end of this 
> message is the reply I received from on of the sales Reps.
> I then left a message to call me because their reply 
> addressed only one of my concerns.
> 
> I need to know the total picture. What will the recipients 
> of the the mailhop see as the reply to address. I don't want 
> the mailhop address to be the reply to address. Will the 
> mailhop cause problems with my recipients ISP?
> 
> So is there any experience that the blu members have that 
> they could expound on here?

Anti-spam measures are your enemy.  The reply-to isn't your problem.
Using mailhop outbound, you'll get bitten by SPF: your mailhop won't be
on your ISP's list of allowed servers, and your mail will go into most
domains' bit-bucket.

For twice as much you could use the mailhop inbound to forward to a mail
server in your house (potentially on a high-numbered port), which is
configured to forward everything to your ISP's mail server (in sendmail
parlance, that's the 'smarthost' configuration).  But that requires a
mail server in your house to be up 24x7, which may or may not be a
problem for you.

Matt






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