Do I really need an MX record? (for e-mail to work)

[Daniel Ström]

You can choose any Mail service provider you want, it does not have  
to be your ISP. All i ever hear is excuses (we have to run this  
ourself) but in 99% that is absolutely not defendable from a  
economical or practical standpoint. If you dont have the resources  
let someone else do it that has them and focus on your core buisness.

In this case judging by the setup (cable modem on a single IP) i  
would seriously doubt that running it in-house is  a wise decision.

/ Dan

On Dec 22, 2005, at 2:08 PM, Peter Dambier wrote:

> Daniel Stro"m wrote:
>> I would seriously start thinking about letting your ISP handle all
>> your mailhosting, why even bother with this inhouse when all you got
>> is a cheap  cablemodem (?!). Let someone who actually got the
>> resources handle this and go on and spend your time on something more
>> useful.
>>
>
> The problem is most BIG ISPs have a prime position on all kinds of
> spam lists. If you really want to reach your clients or costumers
> you must do it yourself.
>
> I wonder how come, my dynamic ip can send email to people who dont
> accept email neither from my ISP GMX nor from wannado.fr.
>
> Not to mention the emails I did not receive because my ISP has the
> ISP of my partner on his DSN Blacklist.
>
> Ofcourse everybody inviting everybodyelse to google-mail might solve
> that problem but I dont want to waste my time cutting and pasting
> big lists into a webmailers screens 24 H per day.
>
> Cheers
> Peter and Karin
>
>
>> 22 dec 2005 kl. 05.07 skrev Barry Margolin:
>>
>>
>>> In article <dod4ef$lae$1 at sf1.isc.org>, sm5w2 at hotmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cormack, Ken wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> What would you do when marketing comes to you (as they did to us)
>>>>> and says
>>>>> "We don't want to require our users to type "www.ourdomain.foo"
>>>>> in the
>>>>> address for our web server.  We feel that's too much work.  We
>>>>> want them to
>>>>> only have to type 'ourdomain.foo' into their browser, to hit our
>>>>> web site."
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what you mean, but let's see.
>>>>
>>>> If my domain is "somedomain.org", then naturally if someone out  
>>>> there
>>>> went to their browser and entered "www.somedomain.org" then yes,  
>>>> that
>>>> is working in my case, and it also works if someone enters
>>>> "somedomain.org" into their address bar.
>>>
>>> If you don't have an MX record, this will only work if the same  
>>> IP is
>>> used for your web and mail servers.  This may be OK if everything is
>>> hidden behind a single IP, but that's frequently not the case.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
>>> Arlington, MA
>>> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
>>> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
>>>
>
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