Re: Mail and new servers locally?

Elliott Roper <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> > As much as I have experience of computers, I've never actually had to
> > deal with server side stuff much before.
>
> Mail server stuff is already in OS X in the guise of Postfix. Spend $10
> on postfix enabler for an almost automatic way to set it up.
> You will need a fixed IP address from your ISP.

Yes, those come with Eclipse for free (up to 8 I think). I'm not too
sure about the bother at the moment, Gmail works OK, and I don't plan to
have my G5 awake 24/7, but it could be a plan for the nearish future
[1].

> I got one (well eight sort-of) from zen for free, domain name
> management via zen by Nominet £50/year and set up a mini to be mail and
> web server. I couldn't see the point of setting up a news server, since
> the ratio of stuff I look at to the stuff that exists, even within a
> newsgroup is tiny. If there is only one person eating the newsfeed, it
> makes no sense at all.

Aye, that's probably not worth the bother.

> Even having your own web server is fairly pointless, unless you want to
> experiment with php and its relatives. With ADSL, every visitor will be
> hurt by the crappy uplink speed it can offer.

I'm liking the fact that I can put private files onto some web pages,
user name and password protect them, and allow only limited access to
them *when* I want access to be allowed.

Eclipse only offer 20Mb of web space which would be a cut down version
of my current site. I plan to have a web space exceeding a lot of normal
free web space allocations. I have tested the link from work, and feel
that the speed is actually quite acceptable.

[1] I might be able to get hold of an old G3 which I could build up into
a dedicated web and mail server box.

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