Does anyone have a mail server at home?

[Peaches]

Geeze - I feel like I'm having a severe mental block or something.

On the IP, I have found in the past... That if I keep the connection live that I will not get a change of ip unless the line goes out.... But, I also found that if I went into my router and told it to always fetch the same ip, 99% of the time I would get connected on the ip I wanted... Sometimes though, if that ip was already assigned, I could not get it...

So I DO have to get the static/semi static IP from ETC? If so, won't that cause the same problems I'm having now? I'm so confused....

another alternative, at least for testing is to find someone with a mail server and ask them to set up for you for a while to see if that takes cares of the prob

I feel like such an idiot - "how do it work"? Right now, I have my incoming server set to the different mail.blah.com's. Would I merely change the STMP server to whatever static IP I get?