Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Well, as always, it depends. What do _you_ mean by a mail server? Do
you mean that you want people to mail you directly and your mail to go
out to the internet directly and bypass your ISP? If so, you'll need a
fixed IP and help from you ISP since they normall block this for home
users. Hey, my ISP says that their connection is only for one computer
that I can't run a network on their hookup. I guess they've never heard
of UNIX and masquerading.
I run a mailserver in that I can mail internally and externally.
However, the mail all goes out to my ISP's smart host and comes in with
fetchmail.
Doug.
A p3 is plenty unless youre doing a VERY large quantity of mail.. Re the
IP thing, a static IP and an ISP that doesn't block and is willing to
change a reverse dns entry to match the forward are what I have done,
seems to have worked ok for me. Smarthosting is not for me, I'll
deliver direct..
Brian
