Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 18, 2005, at 12:13, Puissante wrote: And am I correct in assuming that Postfix, Exim, and most other MTAs will integrate well with Procmail? Since I make heavy use of Procmail recipies, it would be a no go for me if that were not the case. I use procmail with postfix. I have used it

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Fred of Hydranuke
This is off the topic of this thread, somewhat, but gets back on further down. On Friday 15 July 2005 12:30, Bill McGonigle wrote: ... But... the warning on the Postfix website remains - allegedly due to some bitter feelings over the situations years ago. Ah, OSS politics. I use sendmail

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
On Monday 18 July 2005 12:53 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote: I use procmail with postfix. I have used it with Exim, on a hosted account and I had to do some hackery to get it to work. I still get an occasional mail from people searching the Exim archives about a hack I posted to get procmail

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread puissante
Bill McGonigle wrote: ... I've had the same address on my cable modem for over a year, but my parents' Verizon DSL DHCP address (via pppoe) changes as often as every 15 minutes. Dyndns to the rescue for support... I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:15, puissante wrote: I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't see how you can maintain a good connection for doing anything when the IP is changing every 15 minutes. Ugh. Yeah, we'll be talking on the video phone, then *poof*. It's

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Jenkins
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Jul 18, 2005, at 20:15, puissante wrote: I have no love for Verizon, and despise the fact they use PPPoE. And I can't see how you can maintain a good connection for doing anything when the IP is changing every 15 minutes. Ugh. Yeah, we'll be talking on the video

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 19, 2005, at 00:13, Dan Jenkins wrote: What about switching them to Speakeasy on a bare line (no Verizon local service needed) and switching to VoIP (like Vonage) with number portability so they keep their existing number? From their viewpoint, it ought to be invisible and likely would

RE: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Brian
Setup your distro-of-choice, along with sendmail and webmin. Webmin makes it very easy to add accounts, aliases, etc if you're not an uber-sendmail guru. Then, you just need an MX record setup in your DNS entries to point mail to your hostname (and then of course, another enrty that resolves

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I receive my email through rundlett.com, and a healthy dose of spam through freephile.com; both of which are externally hosted through a web hosting provider that includes email service and easy-to-manage web-based administration of user

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 15, 2005, at 00:36, Greg Rundlett wrote: and just serve it from home Ditto what Brian said and make sure the ISP you use for home access will allow port 25 inbound before you move the domains. :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
[Someone wrote something, but I didn't want to clutter my beautiful prose] I'm going to come out and agree with Paul: Postfix is a Good Thing. So's Exim. (They both roughly replicate the functionality of Sendmail, but do away with the confusion, and most of the security glitches, of Sendmail.)

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:54, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Postfix (SMTP) MailScanner (spam/virus/phishing) Courier/Dovecot (IMAPd -- I use both, and think they both work well) Squirrelmail (webmail -- lots of functionality, not much overhead) Amazing how we all converge on the same solutions. :) One

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Bill Mullen
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 08:06, Paul Lussier wrote: Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I receive my email through rundlett.com, and a healthy dose of spam through freephile.com; both of which are externally hosted through a web hosting provider that includes email service and

Re: domain (especially email) hosting from home

2005-07-15 Thread Randy Edwards
How would I go about moving those services to my local machine (offering email accounts to family too) with the least amount of hassle and worry? The exact answer is easy -- just set up the services on your home IP address and switch your DNS (at whoever has your domain's DNS) to point