On 04/01/18 23:39, Kiwi User wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:28:44 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> I dont understand what you mean by 'using it to collect mail from an
>> ISP'.
>>
>> Why on earth would I want to be 'collecting mail from an ISP'?
>>
> It probably would not suit you, but the following setup works exactly the
> way I want it to:
>
> My Postfix MTA sends outgoing mail via my ISP's mail host and I use
> getmail to retrieve incoming mail from from my ISP's mail host using POP3,
> passing it to my MTA for local delivery via Dovecot. My mail volume is
> fairly small, so this system handles it easily while allowing me to
> receive and send mail without having any ports externally visible or
> accessible.
>
> I do run a web server, but only for internal use. My published websites
> are hosted by my ISP. These are maintained locally and published by using
> FTP to mirror them onto my ISP's webhosting servers.
>
>
Good gid. I wouldnt rteuts my ISP tro host a cklown party for 5 year olds.

I run about 20 websites on a linux virtual private server, plus half a
dozen doamins I keep for my email and other nefarious purposes plus a
few other people's websites and email.

This isnt at home stuff. Behind some firewall. This is out there on the
backbone shit.

The only firewall is iptables.

--
"Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social
conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the
windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor.) "

Alan Sokal

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