[Info-vax] A POP oddity, moves messages to MAIL without reading them

[P. Sture]

In article <mycsm.11650$U5.154493 at newsb.telia.net>,
 Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:

> JF Mezei wrote:
> 
> > Mail services will be the first thing coming off VMS when
> > I get a new server in the coming months/weeks.
> 
> Of course.
> Maybe aprox 10 years to late, but probably the right
> decision anyway. There are many far better platforms
> for normal day-to-day mail handling. Easiest is to
> let your ISP run your mails, it's usualy included in
> your Internat access anyway. Running your own mail
> server "at home" could be fun, but hardly needed.

I ran my own VMS mail server at home from 2002 until early 2008.

Although I started out with a fixed IP address, I saved a lot of money 
changing to a cable connection and with that came DHCP. Circa 2007 more 
and more mailservers started to block mails coming from dynamically 
assigned IP addresses, so the value of my VMS mailserver was degraded to 
incoming mails only.

I actually use a separate ISP from my connection provider, as they offer 
commercial grade e-mail services rather than the POP-and-webmail-only 
offerings of the connection provider.

-- 
Paul Sture