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mwills

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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
 
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.

 
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!
 
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