I have no idea whether that's the best way to word the topic, and I can't search on "ip" to see if there is an earlier thread.....

My isp is Roadrunner (via Oceanic Cable, the only high-speed game in town here).

I am heartily, heartily sick of Roadrunner's socal smtp server either a) losing emails sent with no notice, or b) taking 24-48 hours sometimes to actually send an email.

All of my email addresses are aliases and forward to my "real" pop3 box at a wonderful, local isp in the Bay Area. They have been well-worth keeping for $10 a month even having moved away (for 10 years the same guy has answered the support line, and support email questions are always answered within five minutes by the same guy).

I can't use that isp's smtp server though without a static ip address (which I cannot get from Oceanic with doubling the monthly cost -- which is already too high given the monopoloy they have here).

But my "real" isp tells me that if I had a static ip address they could set me up to use their smtp server.

Are there any services that allow you to have a virtual static ip (is that the right term?) that would also follow you when Oceanic makes its occasional change to my dynamic ip address? I could then have this and get set up with my real isp to use their smtp server.

Forgive any cloudiness or confusion in the question, please