Re: [Sheflug] Mail servers

[Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 July 2010 11:15, Simon Brown <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions?


I recently set up a Sheeva plug as a web server, but it could also be
used as an email server too.  The plug cost me £80, and I obtained a
domain from dyndns.com, which didn't cost me anything.  Configuring
the plug is not for the feint hearted, so I don't think I would
recommend this for Linux beginners, but the total cost of running this
is very low in terms of electricity and I'm not paying out any
additional hosting/subscription fees.

Here are some details of my installation.

http://sluggish.homelinux.net/index.php?title=The_Sheeva_plug

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