Journal Anarki2004's Journal: Mail servers for n00bs 1
More often I am reading about people running their own personal mail servers to prevent mega-corporations from processing/retaining their private data. I am somewhat new to the prospect of operating/maintaining a private mail server but have a generally sound knowledge of computers. My question is this: what sort of tools, literature, and tips would you offer to a person who wants to run a private mail server from his home connection? Is this sort of project feasible for somebody who doesn't have some formal training? Try to keep in mind that I am not an IT professional but I do have some basic know-how in the field.
Steps (Score:2)
Step 1:
Register a domain. In your case you'll probably want to register it somewhere that will also host your DNS and let you edit your records.
Step 2:
Obtain a static IP from your ISP (this usually requires a business account, and usually also gets you around the various blocks ISPs have put on their users)
Step 3:
Install an SMTP server. For a trivial installation like this, you probably don't want to use something like courier or sendmail. Debian's exim package has probably the simplest "basic" setup scr