Domain question?

[BoKingWen]

I had setup a mail server at home, I am using ArSoftMail. I had a static IP and I use DynDNS.org to host a Domain for me. My question is I can access the mail server throught the internet "www.my-domian.net😛ort number". If i just enter the domain name on the broswer it won't work, I must type in the port number. Is there anyway I can set it up so I don't need to put the port number in the browser. The server I had the mail server running is also running a ftp server. Hope this don't sound too confusing.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

why is it www.my-domain.net instead of mail.my-domain.net? you should just need to have it resolve that mail.whatever.net to the ip and port number of your e-mail server. Assumes ArSoftMail is a pop3 server of course. Never heard of it, a bit of an exchange man myself.

 

[Fuzznuts]

the mail server will be listening on ports 25 and 110 www. address listen on 80 it seems quite normal to put in the port. I assume you are tyring to connect to some kind of built in webmail frontend on the mail server. if this is the case read up on the docs and see if you can change the port from whatever it is set to to port 80.

this is of course assuming you are not hosting any websites on that server if you are then there is no easy way around it.

The only other option i can see if that is the case is to register another dydns name and have a webserver listen on that address but redirect it to the webmail port. so www.mail.dydns.org will be ridirected to www.web.dyndns.org:8080 or whatever port you need.

Hope this helps