Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by kortilla on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:22PM
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Seems like a stupid design decision at that point to have a dedicated instance per user. For a pass-through they could multiplex tens of thousands of customers easily onto a single instance.
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by sneak on Sunday August 29, 2021 @10:52PM
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No, SMTP runs on port 25 only. You need an IP per end mailserver if you are not terminating TLS on the multiplexer.
It's not stupid.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by treis on Monday August 30, 2021 @09:25AM
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One computer can have multiple ip addresses though. I don't know if it works on AWS or for email but I think it's at least theoretically possible.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by gsreenivas on Monday August 30, 2021 @01:16AM
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Please read up on how email works before arriving at this conclusion.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by int_19h on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:03PM
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Would they still keep their own separate static IPs then?
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by 22c on Sunday August 29, 2021 @09:42PM
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You can assign multiple interfaces to an EC2 instance and each of those can have a static IP. I think there is a hard cap on the amount of interfaces you can assign to a single machine, so you'd still have to scale out horizontally at some point.