Re: [Sheflug] Mail servers

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 July 2010 12:25, Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>

I'd suggest be careful with Sheeva plugs, I'm on my second as the
power supply blew in the first, when I checked the forums there are
loads of people complaining about their. This one has just started
complaining about issues with the internal storage being corrupt so
I'm giving up and changing to an Alix board instead, I manage loads of
those for a client and have never had any problems with them.

Robin

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