[OT] Home Email Servers

[David Fletcher]

I have an account with One And One that provides authenticated SMTP that I can 
use from anywhere. I also run a small machine as a mail server which 
downloads with fetchmail then puts everything through procmail to do some 
filtering into evreybody's mail boxes. If I'm out somewhere and lucky enough 
to be able to get a WiFi connection, I can collect mail from my server using 
POP3 over SSL which runs on port 995. You need to configure your Internet 
router to port forward 995 requests to your server to make this work.

What you could do is set up your server with Squirrelmail. Yes it's web mail 
but it would be running on your own server, if that's any consolation. You 
need to make sure you run it over SSL which is port 443 I think.

I would go for postfix rather than sendmail. Just my personal experience in 
which I managed to get postfix to do what I need but never sendmail. I guess 
you should be able to go in from outside to use your server as a relay, but 
be very Very VERY careful about doing this. I mean that - be very careful. 
Don't end up being an open relay otherwise every spammer in creation will be 
using it too. You would have to set it up as authenticated SMTP like One and 
One does. This I've never done, so you might be better off either using 
Squirrelmail over SSL or paying a few pounds a year for a dedicated outside 
email account like I use. Postfix can be configured to act like a client to 
an authenticated SMTP server for your outgoing messages, or maybe you can 
just is your ISP's box to make it easy.

Dave


BTW What hardware are you running your server on? I'm interested in making 
these take as little power as possible whilst running a standard 3.5 inch 
hard drive. Trouble is the less power you want to take the more expensive the 
hardware gets, it seems to me.


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