[TriLUG] Looking for the simplest stand-in temporary mail server

James Jones jc.jones at tuftux.com
Thu Sep 11 10:21:53 EDT 2008


Brian,

Why not let Google host your email for you during your move?

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/gmail.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=e%20mail%20hosting

It took just an hour or two for me to set tuftux.com's email up with google.

jcj


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Brian Henning
<Brian.Henning at datadirect.com> wrote:
> Hiya LUGgers,
>
> I'm moving on Saturday.  I host my own e-mail.  There will be down-time
> during the move, and I don't want to deal with the hassle of some
> mailing lists that auto-unsubscribe on any sort of bounce (including
> transient non-fatals).  So my parents have agreed to let me set up my
> laptop at their house as a stand-in server.  I'll redirect my DNS to
> point to it until my new residence is set up with internet access.
>
> So my question is: What's the simplest, least-setup-required thing to
> use to listen on port 25 and cache inbound e-mail?  At worst, I could do
> a full sendmail setup with all the same accounts and aliases that my
> live setup has, and then somehow transfer the received mail onto the
> live setup.  That doesn't seem optimal, though; seems like that would
> involve a bit of hoop-jumping to get the mail back onto the live server.
>
> So short of a full sendmail setup on my laptop, what sort of options do
> I have?
>
> Thanks,
> ~Brian
>
>
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