Servers

I really need to set up a small server to accept e mail.

Being a clue-less twat about servers any recomends from the foak.

 

With a detailed set of requirements like that?

Windows 95 with Trumpet Winsock and Turnpike should do the trick.

 

Assuming some kind of domestic as opposed to corporate email.

MacMini
Mailserve
http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServeForLeopard/

Takes about 40 seconds to get incoming and outgoing email up and running.

I *also* have a old core single MacMini that is surplus to requirements
(Thanks to Alan and son in law), which I have been using for my own mail
for a couple of years with never a hiccup.

Also, as a self confessed clueless twat, I'd happily negiotiate a full
service of setup and so on.

If you are thinking about business type stuff, then we'd need some more
requirements defined, but could probably help there as well.
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All the server needs be able to do is collect and store email and
allow other machines access to the e mail and net through it ,
current machines run either xp or vista .
Needs to be idiot proof and simple to set up .

 

Thanks

The my laptop is used for business when i am at home but the other
machines are the girls so there primary use is 5% uni work and 95%
surfing .

 

You don't need a server, just buy an email service from any of the
hundreds of domain hosting companies out there.

 

Well the Mini ran email for my company for years with nary a hitch.
Picks up email from anywhere you like, and then stores it. Can be
accessed as either POP3 or IMAP, and with the correct set up, from anywhere.

About the only thing I couldn't do was get a webmail interface to the Mini.

It'll be a cheap solution.

Feel free to email me at chris at systemlabs dot co dot uk if you want.

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Yes , VM in thier infinate wisdom are out sourceing email , thier new
supplier is going to block several file extensions , including some
database and spreadsheet extensions which i use and so do some of my
suppliers .

As most of my office work is done at home its going to screw up my
emails and the girls as well .

A couple of companies i have asked to host my stuff want my domain
names which i dont want to hand over

 

Several i have approached so far want my domain names as part of the
deal

 

Well, you'll need to be able to control the mx records for your domain.
Can you do that?

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there are several people on here who could host it for you.

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I'd tell them to stop being daft and just provide the email service.
trouble is, if all you want is email and a bunch of POP3 mailboxes,
you're right at the arse-end of the hosting market and anything that
deviates from a fully-automated norm is hardly worth the effort.

 

'Mail server' and 'idiot proof' doesn't really go too well together
unless you want to become spam central.

Cheapest solution is likely to be a machine running Linux, postfix,
amavisd w/SpamAssassin and a ton of plugins for the latter. Oh, and
Dovecot for IMAP access.

If all of the above sounds very Greek to you, /don't/ do it.

 

Is that what dyndns does for me? Do I even have mx records? What the hell
are mx records?

It's raining again.

 

Common law son in law actually, he has not married her yet but wants
the fun, (he's alright but dont tell him that).

Alan

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Almost certainly

Mail eXchange records. It's basically the IP address of a computer that
know where to put your email.

Fucking awful here.
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Transferring a domain to a different provider does not convey ownership.

 

It does, however, convey potential arse-ache should arrangements need to
change in the future.

 

Sure, but for anyone non-technical having the domain, email hosting and
web hosting at the same provider will probably be a better idea than
mucking around with DNS records.

 

Any flavour of Linux in "Server Install" mode and Postfix. Job sorted
and a piece of piss to set up.

Or, as Champ suggested, go down the gmail route. Some of the
departments in my Co have done this and aside from some issues (such
as meeting requests not being processed, IIRC) it's been okay.