Alternative to personal mailservers
In the past, personal mailservers have been very popular with geeks who travel a lot. Or even people who travel a lot who have geek friends. Search for “personal smpt server”
These mailservers are usually used for outgoing mail only. And it worked well for years and years.
No longer…….
Today, it will work in some cases, and fail miserably in others. Basically, dynamic IP numbers have been identified, and mail from mailservers on a dynamic IP address may be rejected or silently dropped. And getting the HELO right on a windows machine presents its own challenges…
Because the majority of spam and viruses today are sent directly from small smtp servers (outgoing mailservers) on ordinary windows computers, more and more mailservers are configured to reject or drop mail from ordinary windows computers.
Get the picture?
So, what’s the alternative? It’s pretty simple, really.
Either log in to your company’s VPN. Find a mailservers with SMTP auth or similar. Or keep a computer at home or at work set up with remote desktop.
No matter where you are in the world, your e-mail will come through the same mailserver. Problem solved…