Re: [Sheflug] Mail servers

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Simon

> For a variety of reasons I'm looking into getting my own domain. I
> plan to use it principally for email, I'm not really interested in
> web space or much else at the moment, just a few email addresses.
> 
> Doing this cheaply seems problematic. Has anyone tried to do this?
> At one end I might be able to run a mail server at home and just
> register the domain, but what happens when my ADSL is down?. At
> the other end is renting a VM from somebody from like bytemark for
> £15 a month, which is not cheap.

There are lots of ways of doing this.  You could get an account 
somewhere like - www.nativespace.co.uk - for about £3.50 or £5 a 
month.  Very easy to do that.  Much quicker and easier than other 
ways.   If you are running a mail server you will probably need a 
backup MX record somewhere in case something goes down.  You can set 
up a DNS record here if you want to for a mail server....

http://www.dyndns.com/
http://www.zoneedit.com/

Can't quite remember how to set up the DNS records and mailer software 
on the home machine but a quick search with Google will tell you 
everything you want to know.  See also...

http://www.howtoforge.com

Best software to use is Postfix or Exim4.   Plenty of documentation out 
there about how to configure and use either of these.

-- 
Richard

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