[ale] DSL switch from Directv

[Ben Coleman]

On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 12:14:28 -0500, Dow Hurst wrote:

>I have static IP Earthlink on a home plan.  Outgoing SMTP has to go thru 
>Earthlink's SMTP server.  Don't know about incoming.

Incoming SMTP works fine on Earthlink DSL.  My domain (benshome.net) is
set up an a dynamic IP Earthlink DSL line, and I've had no problems
with incoming SMTP (apart from when the connection goes down, which
doesn't happen much lately).  With a static IP, you should have even
less problems than I do, as I do risk having incoming mail hit someone
else's mail server and bouncing if my DSL line goes down (as someone
else may end up with the IP I used to have).  A static IP line wouldn't
risk that.

I use hn.org to handle the dynamic DNS to keep my domain pointing to
the correct IP.

Ben
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