Fwd: [ILUG] [OT] Smart Telecom Broadband offer?

[conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 02:03:43PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Michael Thompson thought:
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:32:27 -0000 (GMT), Conor Wynne
> <weeboy at conorwynne.com> wrote:
> > Also, they have no fixed ip, so no more mailserver from home.
> > Or could I have with dyndns?
> 
> You could pay a hosting company to provide you with a mail server and then use

Depending on the hosting arrangements, you may not be able to run proper
spam filtering.
 
> On Demand Mail Relaying (ODMR) to collect your email and deliver it to
> your local mail server. ODMR is supported by fetchmail and means you
> can keep your mailserver behind a firewall with a dynamic ip address,

And you still have to download all the spam and viruses first.

OTOH, dyndns should work nicely for mail.  I don't know yet as I'm still
working on the DMZ setup with smoothwall.  NTL provide long-lease ip
addresses.  Mine hasn't changed for two months now.  300/64k costs EUR25,
1.5m/256k costs EUR50.  That's on top of your cable rental.  Useful to
note that there already exists an eircom-free service in some areas...

BTW, my smoothie has the details of my dyndns setup but never attempts to
update it 'cos my if address never changes {though it might}.  dyndns.org
expires dynamic addresses that don't update for 32 days so mine expires.
I've set it to static for now but does anyone know how to get smoothie {v
2.0 with patches} to update at 30 day intervals?

Conor
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