On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:22 -0500, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
I'm really doing it for the learning part of it. If Bellsouth's smtp server is down when I need to send an email, I just turn to either yahoo, or hotmail, and write and send my email from there. The machine that I'm using is a Dell Poweredge 2300 with 3 9.1 scuzzy hard drives. The machine was givien to me, and it's somewhat outdated. All it has in it is a 500mghrtz single processor, so if I do something wrong and the machine implodes, I'm not out any cash.
Jumping in....
Scenario: Even if Bell provides service and you are running only one account setting up a local email server can help que traffic and send it out once the dial up occurs.
Scenario: There are two or three (or many more) users in the local network trying to share a single connection. Local mail server here is helpful in sending and retrieving mail on regular basis and leave the users not having to worry about connectivity.
AND it is a good learning experience.
You can talk to your service provider and see if they give out sub- domains? Else you can register either domain (slightly expensive) or sub-domain (slightly less so) with service providers. Just google and you will come up with more that handful. Personally I have been using NetworkSolutions (expensive).
But if you setup domain MX record pointing to your server then it has to be on line always. Alternative is to point a higher MX record number to another server hosted somewhere else. OOOooooo. I think I am jumping the gun a little here and jumping into how to setup while you still have to decide on point one.