Folks, I think I need to really clarify what I mean by a mail server.
A real mail server is not needed unless you are in a company making at least a crore in turnover. Or has say 140 employees or so. Even then people get by with Google Apps or some hosted cloud solution. You will require your own mail server for a variety of reasons. A lot of people are very uncomfortable with their data going and residing in somebody's data center or in some other country. By running your own mail server you also attract other expenses like a server room, rack, systems admin to maintain it and so on. Okay now; you certainly can run a poika poika mail server at home by running UNIX of Linux. It can run all the queuing algorithms and all the Postfix sister programs, /usr/local/sbin/mailq /usr/local/sbin/newaliases /usr/local/sbin/postalias /usr/local/sbin/postcat /usr/local/sbin/postconf /usr/local/sbin/postdrop /usr/local/sbin/postfix /usr/local/sbin/postfix-disable /usr/local/sbin/postfix-enable /usr/local/sbin/postfix-install /usr/local/sbin/postkick /usr/local/sbin/postlock /usr/local/sbin/postlog /usr/local/sbin/postmap /usr/local/sbin/postmulti /usr/local/sbin/postqueue /usr/local/sbin/postsuper /usr/local/sbin/qshape /usr/local/sbin/sendmail But then until you have an MX record and people can reach you really aren't running a real mail server. And to send mail out you need a static IP. Hope this settles the case. If not court opens tomorrow 9 am. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
