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.

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