is it possible to setup an email server from my computer?

[mastodon88]

if possible, and for a low price(only sending a few emails a day and just want to learn how it works) could you guide me along the way?

[Fintan]

Re: is it possible to setup an email server from my computer?

Well, I am no expert at this but google is my friend so:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer

and
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whati...res/mailserver

http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/]and
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and a few others.

You can either install ubuntu server as described above (link 2) and then install kubuntu-desktop or grab the packages from the repos.

I hope this helps and keep us posted

Edit:
Here is another good place to have a look:
http://beginlinux.com/blog/category/...x-mail-server/

[ajc00]

Re: is it possible to setup an email server from my computer?

Hi

Email servers are extremely simple to setup, but it depends what type of server you wish to use... Firstly you dont need to install the server version of your OS as mentioned in the previous comment you can just install the software from the repositories...

The best software ive found to achieve this is:

Exim - I believe the current version is exim4 so to install simply "sudo apt-get install exim4"

Generally you will get a very basic gui during the installation, however if you do not, then you can configure the options using the "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" command.

This will ask you about the domain name, mail relay servers etc.. Its all very well explained whilst running the command.

Once exim is installed and running (Port 25) then if for example you had just setup exim for example.com then you would need to contact your hosting provider for the domain example.com and then get the dns entries for example.com mx records to point to your newly installed PC. Then anytime anyone emails blablabla@example.com all the emails would be sent directly to your pc/server.

To be able to retrieve the emails which would by default get stored in /var/mail/{username} you could use something like dovecot, this is a pop3 / imap server.

Again install using "sudo apt-get install dovecot" Once installed you would need to read how to configure it, its pretty straight forward and explained at http://wiki.dovecot.org/FrontPage

All you would need to do now is make sure both server applications are running and then if you are behind a firewall or router, you would need to port forward:

Port 25 - SMTP (Used by exim)
Port 110 - POP3 (used by Dovecot)
Port 143 - IMAP (Used by Dovecot)

Note. Pop3 and IMAP are not secure so you may want to use the secure versions but all this is mention in the above url

[GreyGeek]

Re: is it possible to setup an email server from my computer?

Be sure you examine your contract with your ISP. Some forbid using the IP address they assign you as a sever of any kind -- for email, multi-media streaming, or what ever.