Mail Server

ahajv4life

ahajv4life

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My futbol buddy has a mail server, and I was wondering what you'd need to do something like that. Any sites/how-tos?
Thx.
 
Depending on the size of the network being served, you can get away with something as small as a Pentium-class processor for a home LAN, though a PII would be better.

Nearly any Linux distribution has the necessary tools for making a mail server.
 
So it's usually done through Linux? Anyway it can be done through Windows? Need a static or dynamic IP? and how would that work for the email addresses? Draggos@????.com?? lost as to how that works.
 
Win as a general rule makes for a terrible server-- too much overhead and whatnot, though Server 2K3 is popular in the corporate world.
 
I only implement server 2K3 when I'm dealing with clients that want to run Active Directory, however 2K3 does have SMTP and POP3 servers located on the installation disc that can easily be installed and configured.

For any of my hardcore networking services I always run FreeBSD or Linux. As said before mostly every Linux and Unix distro out there comes with the mail servers built right in. There are however hundreds of mail server variations out there for *nix systems and even some that run on Windows. How it works basically is you setup a MX record on the DNS server that is configured for the domain. You point the MX record to the mail server and bingo! There is however a lot of config files and MAN pages to go through for *nix systems to make it secure and run properly but that’s really how easy it is.
 
Exchange is my perfered email server. Dont be a linux fanboy, windows is a fine platform for most anything. I think linux is swell, but its all about what you want.

I like exchange 2003, it is a great enterprise platform. Its scalable to what ever you needs are. Exchange can do pop/imap4 but the perfered way is the exchange mode in outlook.

There are alot of cheap email servers for windows if you want to go that route. If you are just learning you can get a demo verson of exchange. I will tell you though exchange is a handful if you dont know what you are doing
 
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