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by perromalo1

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Hi everyone!!

ok. I just register my domain name, soon will be having internet cable(comcast). I will like to set up a email server for my family. I have been reading a bit but I,m I little confused with the xm records, dns, And so on. Is for my family use and not for business. And plus for my expirience to learn this stuff. Is there any guide avaliable for dummimies or, for some of the members of this forum to point me to the right direction.

PS: I am a newbie!!! :)

Thanks in advance
perromalo1

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by cg it

have to pick a mail server to use as there different flavors, Windows, Linux, blah blah.

quick and dirty explanation.

DNS is nothing more than name to IP address resolution. Your ISP gives you an address. you buy a domain name. there has to be a service that says ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is domain name umpity ump. DNS is that service. MX record is a mail record that says mail server .com is address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

So when someone send you mail, their mail servers send out a call to the internet asking "I've got mail for .com anyone know Who they are? " authoritative DNS servers on the internet send out a "Who Is" call to other DNS servers asking "Who Is" .com The DNS sever for you domain says "I Am" and my address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx so the DNS server who sent out the call "Who Is" says ok and send that information back to the requesting DNS server that says I've got mail for .com. mail is then sent to your address.

here's a brief article on DNS from DynDNS.org
https://www.dyndns.org/support/kb/archives/what_is_dns.html

by korgmeister

do you know how much is the license cost? unless you are using linux. plus, are you gonna pay the electricity bill? do you have UPS? static ip? confirm with your isp? (because some isp wont allow you to host a server)

if you planning to give access to numerous people, do you have enough bandwidth?

by perromalo1

Thanks for all the replies!!!

Just did some reading, and i have my email server running!!!!! I just sign up with //dnsexit.com for the dns services and is free. Found and email server(shareware) install, configure my router to foward to my computer and now everything is working. Comcast will let you host your server for personal use and not for bussines(that means if your making profits) I just did this just to learn. And that is true about the electric bill:)

Thanks
great forum

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