Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if anyone has any experience with running a mail server at > home.
It is doable with OpenBSD on the sort of box you describe. For small scale operations, it is possible to fit all those things on a single machine, if you like. For any useful mail handling you *will* need one or more fixed IP addresses, and you need to make very sure you have any and all forward and reverse DNS zones involving your kit set up correctly. Even then you may be bit by somebody else's goofs if your address range allocation is anything less than a /24[1]. Then you may or may not want to run all that many services on a single box (thing single point of failure), but once again it's doable for small-scale operations. You could probably improve reliability by going for a colocation somewhere or even a virtual machine in a controlled environment, as has already been suggested. So yes, a definite maybe ;) [1] http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-business-end-of-blacklist-oh.html -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
