On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:50:14PM +0530, Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್) wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nitesh Mistry > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:24:36PM +0530, Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್) wrote: > > > Even I get scared quiet often, the only option left is to buy a domain > > just > > > for E-mail purpose... > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but how is buying a domain safe for emailing. I > > believe, you will still need someone to host the email! > > I would really like to explore this alternative. > > > > You can buy a domain name say www.example.com (host on your computer or buy > a shared space) > > Since it is your domain so you can setup an email account, example * > [email protected]* and it will be yours for your life unless you stop paying > for the domain...
But this does not answer my query. I can buy a domain and setup an email account (which is what I am using right now, while writing this mail) but if someone can hack (crack, that is ;-) ) in to my gmail account, wouldn't he be able to get into my owned-domain email account? What if I use google apps to host my email with personal domain? May be the only extra safety is that (as you pointed out) I will not be locked out like some gmail users were i.e. denial of service. I guess there is more to it than just buying a domain and setting up an email with that (though I want to be wrong about this). By the way, I would love to know more about hosting email on my own computer -- if that does not involve alpha-geek stuff and needs my computer to be switched on and connected 24x7. I'll definitely also google it up. Regards, Nitesh -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
