Nerd alert.
I’m not sure how many of you are “tinkerers” but I surely am. I love making stuff and then subsequently breaking them down. In fact, I actually think I love breaking things more than putting them back together (just ask my parents).
Here’s a neat vid that highlights how you can “Make Your Own E-Mail Server”:
FYI, I use http://www.whatismyip.com whenever I need to figure out my public ip address (can you tell I’ve had to call Comcast Internet customer service a couple of times or more?)
John, but why would people do this? If you’re church/ministry is small, you’d be probably best to consider a 3rd party solution for email services, including the free white label Gmail solution for businesses. If you’re big enough to start owning your own web/email servers, you may not want to depend on your own connections/redundancy back-up issues/etc — again 3rd party might be better — even the paid Gmail for biz solutions at $50/employee/year is affordable.
I did like the video for the video itself – neat execution for a tutorial video.
because you can? tinkering with stuff like this helped me learn. i think tinkering is undervalued.
I concur.
My Poppa was 500 before he reached Master Tinkerer.
hahah.
Perzakerly.
Most everything I know now in computing is down to tinkering. No, scratch that. Most everything I know in life is down to tinkering.
My mum always used to say she knew I’d be an engineer because I never put stuff back together as a child.
PUAHA! sAME!
It is so important to constantly be learning new things and trying new things (maybe just to you) out.
If I would have just been satisfied with the way a theme or template came in WordPress, I never would have learned anything. Now people come to me for advice or help (and sometimes they even pay!).
Great reminder to never stop learning.
never stop. never stop!
While that’s helpful, it probably won’t work for most people at home. The majority of ISPs (AT&T & Comcast for sure) block port 25 for residential users. Since you can’t send from that port, you either have to change it or use an external SMTP server (often called a SMTP Forwarder or something similar). Cool tutorial though.
yeah. for most people.
Well that video left my head spinning.
Setting up mail servers is just one of those things that has to be done – but I hadn’t come across tinkernut before so thanks for teh heads up John.
tinkernut is awesome.
Creating an email server on a windows box is a spam-bot just waiting to happen.
Up your geek street-cred and install a linux server instead.
pauahhaha.