Either you want to send or receive mail from anyone and from anywhere in cyberspace, that is irrefutably possible. Like I said, consider this site:
www.no-ip.com I am not working for them but I had used their affordable services and it works well. One thing, if your ADSL router at home has either a dynamic or a public static IPv4 address your purpose is very doable. The keyword here is redirection. FYI, masquerading is a LINUX shit but openbsd rules with its PF power. > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:51:31AM -0800, Chris wrote: >> I have a P3 box with 120GB HDD that's doing web, ssh and samba at the >> moment. I >> am planning setup sendmail, spamd, mimedefang, clamd and spam-assassin >> on this box along with web, ssh and samba. >> >> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with running a mail server at >> home. >> I want to know if I should use only one box or buy another box? Also, >> what sort of electricity bills >> will I run into? And also if is there anything else I would need to know. >> >> Thanks for any help. > > 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.
