-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:18 am, Lindsay Yardley wrote: > G'day all, > This morning I recieved an invoice from the isp who handles my > mail/website, he's increased his fees by 200%. This is only a hobby > thing so I can't justify spending that much for redirection & masking. > I'd like (have to) to take over the administration myself. I'd like a > HowTo (for dummies) on the process of administering it. And, I need to > setup a mail server here in the next few hours, which is the *easiest* > MTA? I would have liked to use the debian default Exim but the docs for > fools like me are rather thin, the one I use will need to have plenty of > simple and clear documentation, remembering I know very little about > administering an MTA. > Thanks in anticipation, > (a very paniced) > Lindsay
As others have given pointers in how to set up the mta I wont elaborate myself. However there are some detailed docs at www.exim.org if you need them on configuring exim. However, you seem to also need to be able to get people who want to send you mail to direct them at your mail server. This requires that somewhere out there on the internet there is a nameserver for your domain name with MX records that point at your mail server. This is easy enough if your ISP has allocated you a fixed ip address, but more difficult if your IP address is allocated via DHCP. If you are going so far as to set up a mail server, you could also consider setting up a name server for your domain, then you have control of the MX records. Again, this will only work if you have a fixed IP address. You don't say much about what your ISP is doing for you that costs so much, and how taking over the MTA will save you money. For instance, my ISP does not provide any domain name hosting services BUT I am still using my own domain name. This is because I am using www.freeparking.co.uk to host my domain and all its costing is a few GB Pounds a year. It allows me the ability to manage the domain through a web interface, where I can direct forward mail into a specified mail account at my ISP. From there I collect mail using Fetchmail, before feeding it into a local MTA at home. I actually get 5 mail accounts with my ISP and feed 4 of them with my four family members names and use the fifth as a catchall for all other mail sent to the domain. - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ioHjuFHxcV2FFoIRAhXXAJ9pyHhjSfz9snvhczGFvB4PMrm5JwCcCJAr 9o3BOxv4wM0L3Zb/pd0lrkA= =Nu6m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
