Re: [MLUG] Mail Server With DSL

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mark Taylor wrote:

> Can you set up your own sendmail Mail Server with a DSL connection?
> If so What information do you need from your Provider?

You shouldn't need any.

> Is it possible to have your own mailserver without having your ISP set stuff
> up on their end?

If you want to receive mail and if you have your own DNS server, then yes.
Otherwise, you have to tell your DNS host to set MX records pointing to your
domain.

If you don't want to receive mail then you should be OK as it is.

> How do you deal with dynamic IP assignments to your Linux Firewall IP masq
> mail server?

That's the tricky part. I have no idea. :)
Get a static IP address, and your life will be so much easier.

By the way, I considered the issue of learning sendmail vs. qmail, and qmail
won. I just didn't want to deal with all the headaches sendmail is notorious
for. Qmail has been working flawlessly ever since. Check it out:
http://www.qmail.org

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