On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Viksit Gaur<vik...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was wondering - is it worth setting up your own SMTP server for a domain? > Or use a 3rd party like gmail to do so? Given that new domains are probably > not going to be spam whitelisted - and setting up SMTP might be a security > risk in the making - do people have suggestions? > > The main goal is to have a server for domain.com, and have it send me > automated messages regarding server health etc, through email.
Since you will be generating only local mails, you will need an SMTP Server any way on the server. Disable relay and SMTP connections from external interface to make sure that no one can exploit your SMTP server. However, if you want to give mailboxes to your users in your domain, it is recommended that you use third party mail hosting services like Google, Yahoo! or mail.com. All of them have good spam filters and also support AV scanning on all incoming emails. If you are looking for Indian email provider, there are two I can recommend - NetCore and Directi. > > Cheers > Viksit HTH With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Blog: http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dineshah/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
