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05-12-2004, 05:21 PM
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Lest we forget
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Making my own email...
I want to make my own email adress and wanted to turn my old computer into a mail server but my ISP doesnt allow that so I decided to get it hosted by someone else. I went looking at godaddy.com to register a domain name and saw that they had mail hostung. I have 2 questions. First, for the mail hosting do I slso need to buy a domain name seperatly? And what are the methods of payment becaus I looked all over the site and couldnt find any info.
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05-12-2004, 10:05 PM
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nevermind, asked here becaus I thought id have a faster responce but they answered my email in 4 minutes. Thats what I call good tech support!
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05-12-2004, 10:09 PM
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what is the answer to your first question (do you need to buy a domain name seperately)? I'm interested in doing the same thing myself.
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05-12-2004, 10:19 PM
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got to buy both
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05-12-2004, 10:26 PM
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who is your ISP?
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05-12-2004, 10:29 PM
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rogers
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05-12-2004, 10:32 PM
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oh. do you know if Sympatico would allow this (probably not i guess if rogers doesn't) or where i could find this information?
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05-12-2004, 11:14 PM
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05-13-2004, 02:53 PM
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yeah i looked there. couldnt find anything about it in the terms of service. oh well...
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05-13-2004, 03:15 PM
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The way I look at it, running your own mail server is just not worth the admin and security hassles these days. You have spam and relaying to worry about. At what GoDaddy charges for domain registration and e-mail accounts, it's almost a no-brainer to let them worry about these issues. Less than 30 bucks US a year gets you a domain, 50 megs of email storage, 5 accounts, and server side spam filtering.
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05-13-2004, 03:26 PM
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okay, thanks for the insight glc!
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05-14-2004, 10:48 PM
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If you really want to, just for the hell of it to learn how or something. Go grab a Linux or Unix distro (I prefer FreeBSD, Debian if Linux is necessary). I run my own mail, since I have the server to do it anyways that only hosts games besides email
 .Postfix + BincIMAP to Maildirs (search for that on google and you'll prolly turn up a ton of stuff). |
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05-14-2004, 10:53 PM
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Thats what I wanted to do, I really want the experience but as I said before my ISP doesnt allow that. Although, I have a 3 PC's connected to a router and a old win 95 I dont use. Would it be possible to make a email server INSIDE my little 3 PC network?
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05-15-2004, 05:40 PM
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Sure - and Mercury Mail is free, easy to configure, and has a Win32 version - you could actually run it on Win95.
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05-15-2004, 09:30 PM
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That's why I originally started hosting my own a couple years back (even though my ISP doesn't care what I host), just for the tinker-factor. It's fun to learn how stuff works /shrug.
I agree that it's not worth it for the average individual since paying for mail hosting is super-cheap, but if you wanna learn do it just to learn how, go ahead. You'll quickly find that email is a helluva lot more complicated than it appears to be, it's a good learning experience  .MTAs... Qmail Sendmail Postfix Exim Courier POP3 servers, or... IMAP... CyrusIMAP BincIMAP UW-IMAP Courier Authentication for SMTP (optional)... PAM SASL SMTP-AUTH Search google for combinations of the above servers and you'll find plenty of how-tos and docmuentation. All of the above will run on any BSD Unix or Linux distro. Last edited by Xayd; 05-15-2004 at 09:34 PM. |
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