Does anyone have a mail server at home?

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Originally posted by Peaches@Oct 31 2003, 08:49 AM
OK, here's what I just got from my computer guru:

"Or better yet....let those folks in the hosting business run the mail server
and you just log in and get your mail. Oh wow.....that's almost the same thing I said yesterday about letting someone else do it. "

But....isn't that what I'm already doing with the incoming email which is STILL bouncing?

Hi again Peaches........

Ok...lessee.. I do not know how you have your mail set up right now....

You probably have several different accounts...

personal account with your isp with an ETC addy......

This account would be hosted on ETC's mail server and they have direct control over it.

your domain accounts...
These are probably on whatever servers you are using for hosting and the host company has direct control of the server...

Because ETC is your provider, ALL mail to and from you comes across their lines at some point.... So, if the problem is at ETC and is NOT a problem with their mail server but is instead a problem at their routers with filters or something, then nothing we have talked about would fix it....

However, this could be tested by using web-based email somewhere (yahoo or if your host has web-based, at your host) If you do njot get the same problems using the web-based email, then the problem is at ETC, and not with their mail servers, but somewhere else in the chain.

I know that roadrunner recently issued a policy where they were forcing everyone on their network to go through their mail servers because of the rash of viruses etc.... So, ETC could be doing something like that...

You said that WIG is not having these problems and he is using the same provider, that would indicate that the problem is probably not on ETC's side...

I know this is getting long winded, but I am trying to think through it all as I type...


So, if the problem is not on ETC's end and it is affecting all your email accounts, where could it be.....

If it was just from one domain, then I would say that you had somehow
ended up with that domain on a shit list somewhere..... But since it is all you addys, that is probably not the case...

You said that it is both incoming and outgoing..... If it was just outgoing, since you are using ETC as SMTP for all your outgoing, then I would look there, but it is the incoming and outgoing that is makiing my head spin a bit here....

The more I think about it, the more I come up with the problem being at your PC, but that doesn't make sense either.... If the problem was at your PC, I would expect the problem to be there all the time...

Anyway, I am going to get some coffee and I will ruin this through my pea brain for a bit longer.......... Meanwhile anyone else with any ideas... Chirp up