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mail server issue??
Name: de049 Date: July 29, 2006 at 01:49:22 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: 1gb Product: vaio
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Hiya guys,
I want to install a mail server that will allow me to do the following:
I have my own .com doamin. I presently have only one email address that everyones writes to and everyone in the office gets. Whenever anyone in the office writes out, we all use the same single email address aswell obviously.
I was thinking that if i install a mail server i could create a mail address for each user in my LAN. Would that be possible, desite only having one external email address from my ISP?
How do i best achieve this without going down the windows domain and excahnge server road. I only hve a workgroup LAN, not a domain.
Name: Firehawk335 Date: July 31, 2006 at 12:56:03 Pacific
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Are you familiar with Linux? If so, I would suggest setting up an SME server. It will give you the ability to act similar to an old NT4 domain controller, mail server with web access piece, and file server. Because its open source, there wouldn't be any licensing fees.
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Response Number 2
Name: Firehawk335 Date: July 31, 2006 at 12:57:26 Pacific
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Did I mention it will give you ability to setup vpn's as well as act as an ftp server?
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Response Number 3
Name: de049 Date: August 17, 2006 at 07:28:45 Pacific
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will it work on Ubuntu Linux? Otherwise please advise.
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Response Number 4
Name: de049 Date: August 17, 2006 at 07:44:14 Pacific
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Oh, and will i be able to solve my problem where by i only have one external email account/address? If i create my domain (e.g. test.com)and set emails to be xxx@test.com, ow will it works when sending mails outside over the web?
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Response Number 5
Name: Firehawk335 Date: September 1, 2006 at 07:25:24 Pacific
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SME Server is its own complete linux install. Its a complete install in other words.
As for your "only one email address". If you have a domain name registered, all you need to do is have your registrar point your mx record at your server (your ip address as given to you by your isp) Then you can create as many email addresses as you want. One for each user on your domain.
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Response Number 6
Name: de049 Date: September 7, 2006 at 04:51:34 Pacific
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what do you mean by registrar? the company i bought the URL from ?
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