On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 17:55 +0000, Matthew Wild wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Josh Holland <jshholl...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > I just bought a VPS hosting with the intention of setting up a mail > > address for myself at j...@jrh.co.uk . AFAICT, this involves setting up a > > nameserver, which could also be run off the same VPS. Looking at the > > community docs, to run a name server I need to register a domain name > > for some extortionate price. Is there any way to bypass this, or am I on > > completely the wrong track? (btw it is a BitFolk bottom spec hosting > > running Hardy) > > > > Without a domain name other mail servers have no way of locating your > VPS among all the other servers on the internet. jrh.co.uk, as with > probably all short domains, is already registered (you can type in a > console to check: whois jrh.co.uk).
Thanks for the whois trick. I had just been typing them into Firefox and seeing what turned up. > For what it's worth though, > domains aren't that extortionately-priced, especially .co.uk's > (usually £10 for 2 years). > Really? I went onto nominet (or somthing like that) and saw £92 which put me off somewhat. > My VPS provider, Bytemark, has their own nameservers for use by > customers, so I haven't bothered setting one up myself. I don't know > about other hosts though. > BitFolk do provide nameservers. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix is a starter on installing > postfix, one of the most common mail servers. At the bottom are links > to other guides - Postfix will only handle the sending and receiving > of mail... if you want to read the mail it has received to your > mailbox, you will usually want to set up a POP/IMAP server also (the > alternative is ssh'ing to the VPS to read your mails there). > > Hope this helps, > Matthew. > I'm perfectly happy working from the Community docs. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Celeron M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
