pop3, smtp server

[mwills]

First off, let me apologise if I sound ignorant. I'm really very much a novice at this stuff.
I have a domain name and am serving web pages from an old PC in my home. My DSL connection is dynamic so I'm using a DNS forwarding service (Dynsite) and a simple web server (Simple Server/Analog-X) as well as a FTP server (Cerberus). It's working great but now I would like to include email service. name@mydomain.com. I want to host this completly seperate from my ISP email. I'm not very technical so I need something pretty simple and easy to set up. (Apache turned out to be too much of a challenge for me)

1) can I use DNS forwarding like I do for my domain name? I have already set up Mail@mydomain.com at Zone Edit to be forwarded to my dns

2) what would be a good choice for a POP3/SMTP server? I'm willing to spend some $ but I need low budget

3) It would be great if I could set it up to handle 2 domain names as I am also serving web pages for my local union

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or advice

Mike

 

[TheDiggler]

VOP Mail from Vircom is very easy to administer (and probably easy to setup); however, it looks like the most inexpensive version, VOP Mail Small Business Edition, is $495. Click here for the price list.

Another product you can look at is from Deerfield.com. It's now called VisNetic MailServer. I'm completely unfamiliar w/ this product; however, a few things:

1) This product looks to be a replacement of Deerfield's former e-mail server product, MDaemon (a product I once looked and found to be straightforward to setup/use).

2) The most inexpensive version of this product is a 6-user version for $110. Click here for the price list. I'm not sure what is considered a "user." If that controls the number of e-mail accounts, well, then that IMO sucks.

 

[Workin']

Assuming you are using Windows of some sort, not Linux or Mac OS...

1) Yes.

2) Mercury/32 is exactly what you are looking for. It is FREE and pretty easy to use. The hardest part of setting it up is getting it to run as a service, if that is what you need it to do. But there are clear instructions for doing that.

3) Mercury/32 supports multiple domains

Good luck!