As an alternative, have a look at pmail:
http://www.pmail.com/
I have found it to be lightweight and reliable enough to use in a situation such as yours.
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setup own email server ?
I have IP, own hosting (my computer),one domain hosted on my hosting
My computer has got IIS 6 with SMTP ( ??)
so how can my hosting (my computer) receive email like me@mydomain.com
(MX recode ?)
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In order for this to work, you have to understand how it works
If you have a MX entry for your domain, then all incomming mail for your domain xxx@yourdomain.com will be sent to the pc with the IP address that is specified in the domainname server.
Thus the computer needs to be running a program that accepts connections on port 110 (POP3) ... you can google to find free mail servers, or you can let go of windows and swtich to linux where (almost) everything is for free.
Note that smtp (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) on port 25 is used for outgoing mail and should not be activated unless you are actually providing mail sending services to other people.
I have used MailEnable (www.mailenable.com) a few times. It is free (Standard Edition) and easy to install & use.
An overview of DNS for mail servers (MX records, etc.): www.rscott.org/dns/mx.html
my domain is www.tiemnet.com
Domain Name: PASS, tiemnet.com
Servers hosting DNS Records: PASS, Name Servers are: ns4.no-ip.com,ns5.no-ip.co
A Record Resolution (mail.tiemnet.com) PASS, 222.253.76.135
PTR Record Resolution (mail.tiemnet.com) PASS, PTR=
Server Responding (mail.tiemnet.com) WARN, No Response. This server is not identifiable as a MailEnable Server.
Server Relay Test (mail.tiemnet.com) UNKN, SMTP Server is was not contactable - Please see Article ME020239.
In order for this to work, you need an MX record for your domain. See example for www.yahoo.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> www.yahoo.com MX
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11113
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.yahoo.com. IN MX
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.yahoo.com. 143 IN CNAME www.yahoo.akadns.net.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
yahoo.akadns.net. 900 IN SOA asia3.akadns.net. hostmaster.akamai.com. 1104389870 3600 300 172800 900
;; Query time: 27 msec
;; SERVER: 80.236.0.68#53(80.236.0.68
;; WHEN: Thu Dec 30 07:57:50 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 138
DIG = domain information groper is a flexible tool for interrogating DNS name servers. and is available on all major linux distros
mail.tiemnet.com (and www.tiemnet.com) resolves to 222.253.67.11 - is this the public IP of the server? You need a PTR record (reverse DNS entry for that IP to mail.teimnet.com. There are also some DNS problems with your NS records - see www.dnsreport.com/tools/dn
"when setup the mailenable
there is a field name : DNS host(s)
what must i type in ?"
This should be the IP for the local DNS server used (could be on your network, could be your ISP). According to the MailEnable manual: "The DNS host used by the SMTP to locate mail servers. If you wish to use multiple DNS addresses, you can enter these here, and separate the IP addresses with a space. In most cases, you should include the same DNS host(s) as configured under the network TCP/IP settings for the computer."
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by: leewPosted on 2004-12-29 at 02:12:12ID: 12917705
You need a mail server of some sort. 2003 server has a built-in pop3 server. Try using that. And use, you need to set up an MX record or people will have to send mail to you@server.domain.com