Michael J. Pawlowsky wrote:
> The big problem these days is that if you don't have a fixed IP address quite a few mail servers will not allow you to connect to them. AOL specifically.
> I run a linux box at home and I have it getting all my e-mail from many different accounts and centralizes it in one area. I then use IMAP so no matter what machine I am on, or which e-mail client I'm using my e-mail is in sync. I also send out mail through my server. Well one day I started getting my e-mail refused and couldn't figure out why. After a bit of research I figured out that it was this new rule that some mail servers are using.

I found a way around this. I bought a cable/dsl router that supports
dynamic dns and then created a free account at www.dyndns.org which
gives me a crappy domain name that my router updates automatically every
time it gets a new IP address. But its a crappy domain name and I wanted
a good one. It turned out that my registrar, www.pairnic.com, allows one
to tinker with DNS records for free. So I added a CNAME record to my
real domain name that points to the dynamic domain name. Now I have a
real domain hosted on a static ip address. While I was there I went
ahead and threw in an MX record so I could get my mail too.

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