Hi all,
I've read many times in here 'yeah, I know, I should use my own mail server' and this started to make me think:
1. I mostly use Gmail because of POP3 (my own ISP manages to have each and every mail that I send or that people send to me be bounced, in addition, hotmail has POP3 but it seldom works).
2. I really dislike Google (for obvious reasons) :e
3. So, would it be possible to set up my own mail server? With that I don't mean setting it up on my FreeBSD-box (I am sure with the tutorials I could manage to do that), but: making it work as in actually sending and receiving mails everywhere.
For example, suppose I register 'CalianteFreeBSDnoob.com'. What do I do next? Arrange for some hosting package for my server? Ok, I could understand that. Set up an email server on it? This sounds logically. But: it is my noob understanding that mail servers need to talk to multiple other mail servers in order to send my message to somebody. Can this be arranged? How do I do that?
Because if this works I could simply ditch Gmail and forget having each and every of my mail being indexed and added to their database first
As a final remark: I have tried to appear as a complete noob as much as possible; I hope I have succeed and if not, suggestions to improve this are very welcome :e
Thank you,
I've read many times in here 'yeah, I know, I should use my own mail server' and this started to make me think:
1. I mostly use Gmail because of POP3 (my own ISP manages to have each and every mail that I send or that people send to me be bounced, in addition, hotmail has POP3 but it seldom works).
2. I really dislike Google (for obvious reasons) :e
3. So, would it be possible to set up my own mail server? With that I don't mean setting it up on my FreeBSD-box (I am sure with the tutorials I could manage to do that), but: making it work as in actually sending and receiving mails everywhere.
For example, suppose I register 'CalianteFreeBSDnoob.com'. What do I do next? Arrange for some hosting package for my server? Ok, I could understand that. Set up an email server on it? This sounds logically. But: it is my noob understanding that mail servers need to talk to multiple other mail servers in order to send my message to somebody. Can this be arranged? How do I do that?
Because if this works I could simply ditch Gmail and forget having each and every of my mail being indexed and added to their database first
As a final remark: I have tried to appear as a complete noob as much as possible; I hope I have succeed and if not, suggestions to improve this are very welcome :e
Thank you,