Broadband & Setup Email Server

redman_8888 · 05-31-2005, 10:47 AM

I would like to setup a email server with the linux box in my office.
I have rent a webhosting with a domain name (www.mydomain.com) at other web hosting company. The web hosting provide emails facility but web space is not enough to keep the mails. Due to costing issue, i would to setup email server with my broadband at my office. My broadband is a dynamics IP.

How do i make use of my small rented web hosting and broadband to have great email server in my office with cost effective?

Is there any good idea?

Thanks

david_ross · 05-31-2005, 12:57 PM

Depending on how many accounts you have and keeping in mind that you have a dynamic IP address you may find it better to have the e-mail delivered to your ISP and then automatically downloaded to a local server using fetchmail.

If you don't want to do that then take a look at the dynamic DNS services offered by companies such as http://www.no-ip.org

redman_8888 · 05-31-2005, 08:51 PM

My broadband account only provide 1 email account and it is not my company domain name. eg user@otherdomain.com. Thus i would like to use my own domain then i rent a webhosting with other webhosting company.

We are a trading company, so we need 15 emails account. So we need to setup our local linux email server. Thanks for help.

redman_8888 · 06-01-2005, 07:54 AM

if the webhosting i rent which is support wildcard *@mydomain.com email facility.

In other words,the mailbox which does the "catch all" for the mails received for anyuser@mydomain.com.

Then my local mail server turns these individual mailboxes into virtual POP3 boxes with in the network.

Thus suggestion or solution that i can make use of this to setup my email server?

redman_8888 · 06-02-2005, 06:49 AM

is fetchmail will help?
pls help...

david_ross · 06-02-2005, 01:04 PM

Fetchmail will let you download the messages from a pop mailbox if you have one.

I think your best solution is probably to use somethign like zoneedit's store and forward package:
http://zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html#mx2

This would let you run a full mail server but store would your mail if your IP changed etc.