Hello Jos, Are you going to host a mail server in your desktop system ? That will be a bad idea, since you need to keep the system up for all the time to receive mails. If you can do that then follow the steps to create the mal id.
1. Register the domain name joscollin.com <j...@joscollin.com> 2. You need nameservers for your domain, there are three options 2.a. Host your own nameserver ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIND ) In this case you need to register the nameservers, say ns1/ ns2.joscollin.com. But it is suggested to have two separate static IP address for those nameservers. The nameserver regisration at Godaddy is like : http://help.godaddy.com/topic/163/article/668 2.b. Use the nameservers of the registrar, if they provide them. 2.c. Use free nameserver like http://www.zoneedit.com/ Then follow the below steps at the nameserver that you choose from above steps : 3. Then create a sudomain like mail.joscollin.com and add A record to your mail server IP. ----------------------------------------------------------------- mail.joscollin.com. 10800 IN A YOUR-IP ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Change the MX record of the domain joscollin.com to mail.joscollin.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------ joscollin.com. 10800 IN MX 10 mail.joscollin.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------ After doing all those things, you need to setup the mail server at your system. The Exim mail server is user friendly ( http://www.exim.org/ ), I think you can use that. If you are not ready to put your self in these hard steps then I suggest you : 1. Register the domain joscollin.com 2. Register the account for the domain at http://www.zoneedit.com/ 3. Change the nameservers of the domain joscollin.com to the nameservers provided by http://www.zoneedit.com/ ( You can do that at the domain control panel ). 4. Register a free Google apps account ( http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html ). 5. Change the MX record to Google servers at the http://www.zoneedit.com/panel. ( http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=55378) Hope this will be helpful. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jos Collin <joscol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a new email ID like j...@joscollin.com. I have an > extra GNU system and an unlimited internet connection. How can I set > it up as a mail server and create j...@joscollin.com? Or do I have to > approach an ISP for creating it? Please provide your inputs. > > Thanks, > Jos Collin > > -- > Use free software. Defend your freedom. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > Mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > -- --------------------- With regards, Unni "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"
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