[Linux-aus] SMTP Server recommendations

Luke Hovington lukeh at hovo.id.au
Fri Jun 9 08:54:49 AEST 2023


Hi Russell,

AWS has options for setting up reverse dns entries and unblocking port 25,
I have my email server setup and running. Besides the normal pain of trying
to get the IP trusted by other email providers, it was fairly straight
forward.

Cheers
Luke

On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 08:23, Ian Brown via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> Hi Russell,
>
> I use BinaryLane for my VPS servers and there is an option to unblock SMTP.
> The servers are cheap enough as well, which is just an added bonus.
>
> Cheers,
> Ian
>
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 at 07:43, Russell Stuart via linux-aus <
> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
>
>> I'm after an SMTP relay service, ie something that accepts email via
>> SMTP on some port other than 25, and relays it for me.
>>
>> The reason is my families email server is one I run myself from a server
>> sitting a home on a NBN connection with a static IP, but I'm moving
>> house and will lose access to a static IP for a year or so.  The
>> simplest thing seems to me to move my email server into a VPS, but it
>> seems VPS's now near universally block outgoing connections to port 25
>> for new customers for understandable reasons.
>>
>> The VPS providers say you should use an SMTP relay service instead, and
>> one even suggests a free one to use.  But the suggested free one hasn't
>> respond to my new account request.  There are others I can try, but
>> following the other Russell's example I thought I'd ask here first.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Russell Stuart
>> +61 438 805 133
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