Running My Own Email Server On PlusNet

18 days till my exchange gets activated! I am going with the PlusNet 1mb
service. As I understand it they allow you to run your own mail server. Can
you only do this if you have the optional .co.uk domain name or will it work
with the standard account name.

People running their own mail server - what prog do you use. I have come
across MailEnable at http://www.mailenable.com/ - is this any good? I will
only be running the mail server for family and friends so it will get fairly
light use.

Kimball K Kinnison wrote:

> 18 days till my exchange gets activated! I am going with the PlusNet 1mb
> service. As I understand it they allow you to run your own mail server. Can
> you only do this if you have the optional .co.uk domain name or will it work
> with the standard account name.

You can do it with the standard account name (i.e. yourname.plus.com)

> People running their own mail server - what prog do you use. I have come
> across MailEnable at http://www.mailenable.com/ - is this any good? I will
> only be running the mail server for family and friends so it will get fairly
> light use.

Sorry, never tried it so can't really comment.


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In message <bvlo35$skb1q$(E-Mail Removed)>, Kimball K
Kinnison <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>18 days till my exchange gets activated! I am going with the PlusNet 1mb
>service. As I understand it they allow you to run your own mail server. Can
>you only do this if you have the optional .co.uk domain name or will it work
>with the standard account name.
>
>People running their own mail server - what prog do you use. I have come
>across MailEnable at http://www.mailenable.com/ - is this any good? I will
>only be running the mail server for family and friends so it will get fairly
>light use.
Try Mercury/32 for a windows platform, www.pmail.com Rock solid on a
P233MMX, 64Mb 3.2GB with W2K for almost two years now.
>
>

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> In message <bvlo35$skb1q$(E-Mail Removed)>, Kimball K
> Kinnison <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
> >18 days till my exchange gets activated! I am going with the PlusNet 1mb
> >service. As I understand it they allow you to run your own mail server.
Can
> >you only do this if you have the optional .co.uk domain name or will it
work
> >with the standard account name.
> >
> >People running their own mail server - what prog do you use. I have come
> >across MailEnable at http://www.mailenable.com/ - is this any good? I
will
> >only be running the mail server for family and friends so it will get
fairly
> >light use.
> Try Mercury/32 for a windows platform, www.pmail.com Rock solid on a
> P233MMX, 64Mb 3.2GB with W2K for almost two years now.
> >
> >
>
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> Clint Sharp

Thanx - I will take a look

There is no need, you can carry on using any POP account you like,
just change the STMP server to PlusNet one.
Regards,
Martin

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Martin² <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> There is no need, you can carry on using any POP account you like,
> just change the STMP server to PlusNet one.
> Regards,
> Martin

This sounds interesting!

All my email accounts are currently Freeserve based, and emails are sent out
via smtp.freeserve.com

Are you saying that if I migrate to PlusNet (which I may well do when I
upgrade to ADSL) that I can keep the same (E-Mail Removed) email
addresses - but send the emails out via the PlusNet smtp server? [I shall
maintain the Freeserve accounts on a PAYG basis - but never connect directly
to them - if that makes any difference].
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Tiscali Tim wrote:
> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Martin² <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> There is no need, you can carry on using any POP account you like,
>> just change the STMP server to PlusNet one.
>> Regards,
>> Martin
>
> This sounds interesting!
>
> All my email accounts are currently Freeserve based, and emails are
> sent out via smtp.freeserve.com
>
> Are you saying that if I migrate to PlusNet (which I may well do when
> I upgrade to ADSL) that I can keep the same (E-Mail Removed)
> email addresses - but send the emails out via the PlusNet smtp
> server? [I shall maintain the Freeserve accounts on a PAYG basis -
> but never connect directly to them - if that makes any difference].

That is exactly what I do. Nearly all my mail goes to my Freeserve No Ties
account but I post out from PlusNet through the relay.plus.net server. I
have to reactivate my No Ties account every 90 days through the Freeserve
website but that is the only inconvenience. I also pick up email from my old
Tesco and BT accounts and can respond (not that I do as they are all SPAM)
in the same way.

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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Tiny Tim <_(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> That is exactly what I do. Nearly all my mail goes to my Freeserve No
> Ties account but I post out from PlusNet through the relay.plus.net
> server. I have to reactivate my No Ties account every 90 days through
> the Freeserve website but that is the only inconvenience. I also pick
> up email from my old Tesco and BT accounts and can respond (not that
> I do as they are all SPAM) in the same way.


That's wonderful - thanks!

Just to be clear, are you saying that in Outlook/Outlook Express (or
whatever email client you use) in the Servers section of the Properties for
each account, you leave the incoming mail pointing at pop.freeserve.com but
change the outgoing mail to use smtp.{PlusNet something or other}? Sounds
great if that's all you have to do.

When someone receives such an outgoing email, where does it appear to have
come from?
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Tiscali Tim wrote:

> That's wonderful - thanks!
>
> Just to be clear, are you saying that in Outlook/Outlook Express (or
> whatever email client you use) in the Servers section of the Properties for
> each account, you leave the incoming mail pointing at pop.freeserve.com but
> change the outgoing mail to use smtp.{PlusNet something or other}? Sounds
> great if that's all you have to do.

Yup.

> When someone receives such an outgoing email, where does it appear to have
> come from?

Depends on what you put in the email client config - if you tell it your
email address / reply address is a freeserve one then that is where it
will appear to come from. (Note that if someone studies the email
headers in detail they would be able to work out that the email was
actually routed via the plusnet network).


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In article <bvlo35$skb1q$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Kimball K
Kinnison" <nospam@(nospam)yahoo.com> says...
> 18 days till my exchange gets activated! I am going with the PlusNet 1mb
> service. As I understand it they allow you to run your own mail server. Can
> you only do this if you have the optional .co.uk domain name or will it work
> with the standard account name.
>
> People running their own mail server - what prog do you use. I have come
> across MailEnable at http://www.mailenable.com/ - is this any good? I will
> only be running the mail server for family and friends so it will get fairly
> light use.
>
>
>
I use mdaemon, its the best i've come across