> I do a combination of #1 and #2. > > I have a (cheap!) web hosting account (with Dreamhost) which also provides > me with an email address on their mail system. I have the DNS entries for > my domain point to Dreamhost, so any mail for my domain gets delivered > there. > > But I only use Dreamhost as a mail drop-off point - I don't store my mail > there. I have a cron job that runs fetchmail every few minutes which pulls > the mail down to my home server, where I'm running dovecot, exim, and > squirrelmail (webmail), and I access my mail there. (As well as make > periodic backups of all the mail stored there.) > > For outgoing mail I do the same in reverse. I have exim on my home server > set up to relay any outgoing mail up to dreamhost's SMTP server. That gets > me around the issue of not being able to send mail from a dynamic IP. > > HTH, > > DR > That sounds more or less like what I intended to do before asking for advice here... Thanks. Gesh
