dallash
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Little Rock, AR
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| reply to mschwerin
Re: Email Server
I have 7 mail servers. They are for different purposes, primarily additional revenue streams. For our ISP side of the house, we run a couple of Qmail servers in a redundant blockade. It's housing about 30K accounts.
If I were just starting out, I would use something like Merak or some other free Windows-based server. If you are comfortable with Linux, there are myriad solutions you can "roll your own" with. It's not for the timid, and I wouldn't recommend it (putting an SMTP host on the Internet) until you are comfortable with how it works.
If you are not comfortable doing anything other than building your wireless network, then, by gosh, do THAT well and let someone else do the DNS/Webspace/Email.
You can learn as you go, but it's usually not a good idea to "get your t-shirt" using live customers as guinea pigs. People tend to get very possessive of their email. Heck, to some customers, that ALL the Internet is....
Regards,
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