Hosting a mail server from the office

[G-Money]

What all does it take to host your own e-mail server from your office. Also, can it be ran on WIndows XP ???


FYI : The (server) in the office only shares the internet to the other computers and all the programs save there data to it !!!!!

 

[Geffy]

A friend of mine does Windows hosting and uses Merik(sp?) mailserver which seems to be pretty decent, its not free mind.

boiling it down to its parts you need a pc with a cpu (as opposed to those without one, they dont tend to work was well or as quickly), some ram, fair bit o'disk space, network card, operating system, mailserver software


personally I would recommend using a FreeBSD server with a mailserver on that, provided its not sendmail or exim (so preferably qMail, or LordOfLA would recommend Postfix) then it should be reasonably good.

 

[chrisbyrd]

A friend of mine

That would be me


The particular version of Merak we run costs over $1000 per server

However, a great, FREE, piece of software that will probably do exactly what you want is MailEnable.

If you're wanting to do it 'properly', the other thing you'll need is access (directly or indirectly) to change the the MX records on your domain name. You'll also need a static IP address and a permanent internet connection (xDSL should be ok for small amounts of mail)

I'd also strongly reccomend you make arrangements for a backup email service hosted elsewhere - basically setting an MX record on the domain with a lower priority level to that of your main (on-site) mail server.

Its not as daunting as it sounds - honest

 

[Geffy]

that would be exactly the thing


and welcome to OSNN mr chris

 

[chrisbyrd]

and welcome to OSNN mr chris

spankyou very much mr Geffy

 

[G-Money]

wow .... Thanks for the help !

I'll do my best !!