[Lilug] Mail Server

[odinson at warcloud.net]

Speaking of email.

Mark good to hear from you.  Do me a favor and whitelist warcloud.net. 
Tried to get in touch with you a year back and gmail blocked me.

Thanks.

Matt

PS: Jim.  This email is an example of the joys of running your own email 
server. A few of us do it.  Is it worth it?  That depends on your 
personality.  For me, hell yeah.  Bonus?  Marketable skill!

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Mark Drago wrote:

> Hey Jim,
> Before you buy a domain to use on your home mail server you should know that this is not going to be a simple
> process. For various reasons home ISPs block ports like 25 (SMTP) that will, at best, complicate this endeavor. If
> your main goal is to get some experience with setting up servers at home I would recommend starting with HTTP, using
> a port other than port 80, and using a dynamic dns service to assign a name to your IP (which is likely dynamic and
> subject to change over time). I've had a good experience with afraid.org, but there are many similar services. If
> you're really committed to hosting your own email server at home, the path of least resistance is likely to depend on
> a third-party service to receive your inbound email which you then pull down to your server periodically.
> 
> Best of luck !
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 6:57 PM Bean <jimbean6 at optimum.net> wrote:
>
>       I am trying to setup a mail server on my home computer, just for my own email.
>
>       I don't understand how one gets a domain name.
>
>       Do they have to be purchased? If so where?
>
>       cheers Jim
> 
> 
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