@bob, I have home DSL and from what I discovered in the past is that they only offer static IP's for home users via their DSL offerings. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 9:48 PM <a href="mailto:bob%2Bkwlug@softscape.ca">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a> <<a href="mailto:bob%2Bkwlug@softscape.ca">bob+kwlug@softscape.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> You could run a MIAB at home if you have a company like Teksavvy which<br>
> will give you a DSL based Static IP which is the only chance you'll have<br>
> to run a SMTP/POP/IMAP/etc server at home.<br>
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I was looking to get the business cable from Teksavvy (since that's the only way you can get a static IP from them on a Cable service... via MLPPP!). I read through the terms of service since it would have been on a multiyear commitment and found that they block port 25, period. I called them to ask about that and the response I got was that port 25 and a few other mail transport related ones are blocked. No exceptions. I slammed the brakes on it since I was kinda on the fence for the service in the first place and it would primarily have been to self-host my email at home, so completely defeated the purpose. Went with a dedicated server at OVH instead.<br>
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This was at least a year ago, so YMMV now. I know this is slightly off-topic, but wanted to point that out so anyone thinking about this should pay attention to their ISP's TOS.<br>
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> I don't know anything about the ISP mail relays but maybe? It would fall<br>
> outside of my scope though because I would imagine that my ISP's email<br>
> relay would cost more money and I'm already renting this VPS for a OpenVPN<br>
> instance.<br>
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I suspect you could relay through any service you had an account with that allowed something like Auth-before-SMTP or authenticated SMTP. If you used a mail client on Gmail or o365 or whatever, this is how it would send mail out through them for relay.<br>
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>From what I understand about smtp servers, you could even have special transports to override directly delivery from your server and instead use a relay for specific domains. This way you could say any @<a href="http://gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> addresses... use this special transport that would then be configured to authenticate the SMTP session and cause the provider to allow the relay.<br>
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