domain (especially email) hosting from home

[Brian]

Setup your distro-of-choice, along with sendmail and webmin.  Webmin makes
it very easy to add accounts, aliases, etc if you're not an uber-sendmail
guru.  

Then, you just need an MX record setup in your DNS entries to point mail to
your hostname (and then of course, another enrty that resolves the hostname
to an IP).

Here is an example from my DNS entries:

mail.karas.net.    in      a       69.26.98.13
karas.net.         in      mx  10  mail.karas.net.
karas.net.         in      mx  20  partner.axsne.com.

Note, I have 2 MX records, the go in order lowest to highest.  If my mail
server is down, then sending servers should try to deliver my mail to
partner.axsne.com, which is setup to relay my mail back to my actual mail
server when it comes back up.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org 
> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of 
> Greg Rundlett
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 12:37 AM
> To: GNHLUG
> Subject: domain (especially email) hosting from home
>
> 
> Is the short answer 'learn sendmail'?  I hope not.  I know 
> that there are a variety of SMTP servers, and I'm not sure 
> which is favored for simplicity.
>