From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri May 4 11:50:41 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F144FAA9A0 for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 11:50:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E52B684D4B for ; Fri, 4 May 2018 11:50:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.qeng-ho.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD01110645; Fri, 4 May 2018 12:50:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: email service for a private domain! To: Mayuresh Kathe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20180504083711.GB10324@wolfman.devio.us> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <4a4ccc42-a4fc-0e40-49b1-b6536fe99a18@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 12:50:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180504083711.GB10324@wolfman.devio.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 May 2018 11:50:41 -0000 On 04/05/2018 09:37, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > i own a domain (kathe.in) which i would like to setup for mail services. > essentially, i should be able to log-in over ssh and work through my > emails using mailx. > > i have no idea about what is involved and don't know what the search for > via google. > > could i be pointed in the right direction? If you don't know what's involved, I'd strongly suggest that you don't try to do it yourself, otherwise you could find yourself and your domain blacklisted as a spammer if you accidentally left your MTA open for relaying. Instead you'd be better off looking for a mail hosting service that supports private domains. Most competent ISPs can do that, otherwise you might want to look at an independent service provider like Mythic Beasts (https://www.mythic-beasts.com/) - my wife and various friends use them for mail and DNS as they're a local (to us) company. > also, how do i evaluate hosting service providers? > i only know of rootbsd and digitalocean. The big three are AWS, Google Compute Engine and Azure, with AlibabaCloud catching up with them. Other smaller providers are VULTR.com, CloudSigma, OVH, Atlantic.net. I can't say how good any of them are, I usually run servers in house, but I'm sure others round here have experience of using them. -- An amusing coincidence: log2(58) = 5.858 (to 0.0003% accuracy).