On 5/11/20 6:26 pm, Michael Hallager wrote:
If what you have is a mass market account - Myself and everyone else I know engineers these accounts to be cheap and cheerful. This is what the vast majority of the market place wants. Additionally, the vast majority of businesses do not host their own email servers - they either use a cloud service like Gmail or they get me to do it for them and pay me extra for this. This is good for them (My systems are hosted in a proper data centre and subject to ongoing professional maintenance) and good for me (I make more profit on these services).
And you don't mind that your customers don't have matching forward and reverse, presumably.
Experience has shown to me the small number of customers who are more technically inclined and want to host their own stuff off a basic broadband connection are more often high maintainence, use a lot more traffic and only buy a basic account which I am making stuff all on.
I'm not trying to host here (in this case). My mailserver is at a hosting provider, where all is good (barring the lack of IPv6 ...). It's when my home machine connects to my mailserver that I see what I thought was considered a misconfiguration of DNS. There are lots of things customers don't care about, because they don't know about it, but are nevertheless looked after by their ISP for the general health of the internet. But as Pete says, maybe I'm 20 years out of date. I'm a fan of boutique providers, btw - unfortunately I'm not currently the customer, but the flatmate of the customer, so I don't get to pick :-(
On 2020-11-05 18:00, Richard Hector wrote:
Hmm. I expect low-touch, but given the reverse appears generated (<ipaddr>.foo.isp.net.nz) or similar, the forward would also be generated to match.
And to host services (which I consider entirely reasonable for a home or any other user), I'd need a more useful dns setup than that.
All this is doing is giving me a warning in my mail server logs, but it's irritating :-)
Cheers,
Richard
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