Email server

[DIYspanner]

Setting up an email server I assume means getting a domain registered then download and installing email server software.

Can an email server run on a bog standard PC with LAN?

 

[TheVictorian]

Yes and yes basically.

Why do you need to set up an email server would be my next question. I have a few domains and have associated Google Docs with them so I can use Gmail but with addresses at my domains.

 

[DIYspanner]

I ask about email servers cause a mate has been using a private domain email address for his business run from an email server on his neighbour's PC.


The neighbour is planning to move, so he wants set up his own email server so he can keep the email address on his own email server.

Although I doubt the same domain can be used on two separate email severs?

 

[TheVictorian]

Personally, I'd remove the complexity of a server and have Google do all the hard work. It would be far more reliable and flexible that way:

http://www.google.com/enterprise/ex/6800307/apps/business/products.html#gmail