Hi, Shawn-

 SH>   Even with a static IP if it's a residential IP a lot of mail servers
 SH> just won't accept mail from you anyway.  It was just a total nightmare
 SH> for me even using the VPS machine.

Unless you're coming from an IP block that is designated "business
class" here in the US, you're SOL with a good email setup.  If I
wasn't having my website already hosted, yeah, I'd use google.  But for
what I have now, I'm not too worried about it and it works fine.

Later,
Sean

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