[arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer

[Menachem Moystoviz]

> 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