It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you advertise it..
I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing list traffic and other correspondence which is non critical, because I can create dedicated aliases which all point the the same ultimate mailbox, making it easy to identify where spammers have been obtaining addresses from, and making it possible to just invalidate the effected address... For person mail that I want to be able to access when I am travelling I use a mail forwarding address which can be pointed at an ISP hosted POP3 mailbox (which is polled using fetchmail when I am home) or when needed can be pointed direct to my home server. Regards, DigbyT On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:11:02PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Mark wrote: > >Can anyone who has done it comment on the downside (if any) of bringing > >email in-house, as opposed to continuing to pay a hosting provider? My > >plan is to have a separate server, sitting by itself in the DMZ, so the > >internal LAN should remain relatively safe. The DSL provider we use will > >host the DNS records (MX). We have a top-notch firewall already in > >place, but this is the first step we've taken toward making anything > >available inbound, so I'm cautiously optimistic. > > Generally, most mail will sit in a queue for around 3 days before > failing to deliver - but that depends on the host/server. So, the odd > outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :) > > Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25 > inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to > find nothing happening! :/ > > -- > Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk > ~ www.djnauk.co.uk > -- > 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ > up 4:46, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.55, 0.50 > -- > "Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants." > > ~ Lynn Lavner > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.digbyt.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
