[wellylug] Meeting idea...

[Richard Hector]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:50:49PM +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> I would like to see a presentation on how to set up your own (Internet
> connected) mail server. I sure with all of the expertise out there someone
> can do this.

Perhaps it could be done as more of a discussion than a presentation?
It would probably work better at the Jville venue (assuming you're
back in the same place the main meetings used to be) than LanPlace.

> I am thinking about setting up my own mail server but there are no doubt a
> lot of "gotchas" that it would be good to know about first - esp. with
> respect to spam and virus control (as well as ensuring you don't run an
> open mail relay etc.).

I've never done anything about spam and virus stuff, but the place I've
always got stuck is configuring a mail server that a) doesn't have its
own domain name and b) is on an RFC1918 IP address (and optionally c) is
on a dialup connection). These things never seem to quite fit with the
packaged scenarios provided by the distro installer (at least the Debian
one).

My current server seems to be functioning ok, but I'd still be
interested.

Richard