[ale] [OT] AT&T/UVerse going to carrier grade NAT?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> writes:

> That's a good point, Derek. But block lists are for your outbound mail (i.e.
> inbound to the recipient) and the question was about inbound access. You could
> always use the EC2 IP for your MX record for inbound mail and route your
> outbound mail through your ISP or some other service. Still, it's something
> you have to be aware of to work around.

True.  In my case I route mail bi-directionally through my mail server.
So EC2 wouldn't work for my environment; I would have to change it
significantly to make it work.  But you're right that you could use EC2
for an inbound mail acceptor for your domain without issue.

-derek

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