On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 20:43:19 -0800, Eric Fortner said: | Have to borrow some insight here.............. | The easy parts were getting dns, apache, ftp, all running by reading and | doing | but before I tackle sendmail | is it possible to have an email account on an isp and use a linux box | at home as an email server...........? | if so or not can someone answer/point in the direction I should look to | research this and implement it........ | I have a small lan at home w/6 boxes and migrating from windows just haven't | got around | to purchasing a domaine name as of yet so seeing how things work before | hand... | It would seem I could use my own email server with a mx record pointing to | it by need some pointers or info......this is a little bigger cryptic | looking monster than the rest of my projects | thanks much | This is definitely the wrong place to ask.... Nonetheless, you're fishing with the wrong rod. MX records and a domain come in pairs. If you don't have a domain, you don't have a MX record pointing to you. So noone will be routing mail to you based upon your MX record (which you haven't got) but the routing is based upon the MX record of your ISP. For small lan's, with a standard dial up account, what usually is done is one box where you connect from to your ISP and fire up your preferred email client from there. This can be obfuscated by IP masquerading and using a firewall but the principle is the same. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available