[brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Scott Harney]

willhill wrote:
> Is apt-get install exim any easier?  For a short time, I was able to run a 
> mail server and it did not seem like any big deal.  Filtering is built into 
> the major mail clients and Exim's default settings for my situation looked 
> sane.  Is these something I'm missing here?
>   
Not really. it's not the installing the software that's the issue.  It's 
the understanding the SMTP and DNS protocol relationships and how spam 
works that's the issue.
> Authenticated smtp looks like a nice thing, but won't the spammers figure it 
> out faster than I did?  
>   

You sorta made my point there. 

For personal use, unless you're trying to get up to speed on running a 
mail server for educational or professional reasons, trusting Google or 
some other 3rd party email vendor is probably the way to go.