Hiding my own email server with NAS?

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  • John_Lockwood
    PCHF Member
    • Jun 2017
    • 16

    #1

    Hiding my own email server with NAS?

    Hey everyone,
    I have a Western Digital my cloud PR4100 NAS hit with 16th in raid 5. I was wondering if it is possible to create and just my own private email server on it, and if so, how would I go about doing that? Any suggestions would be a huge help. If I’ve never tried this before, and I don’t have a huge networking background.

    Thanks!
  • veeg
    PCHF Director
    • Jul 2016
    • 8982

    #2
    Hello

    Hopefully some of our members will chime in soon.

    @Samuria @phillpower2

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    • jmarket
      PCHF Owner
      • Jan 2015
      • 7634

      #3
      Hi there @John Lockwood and welcome

      You can make your own email server using Linux and installing Postfix and Dovecot

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      • veeg
        PCHF Director
        • Jul 2016
        • 8982

        #4
        Any updates for us?

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        • Lord_Chance
          PCHF Member
          • Jul 2016
          • 113

          #5
          Creating your own email server is possible but there are things you need to be aware of. First and foremost is the question of whether your ISP will allow it. Most ISPs block the ports used in outgoing email servers. You can get around this by using non-standard ports. Also you need a static IP with an attached Domain. Again there are work-arounds. Security is your biggest consideration. That is all you need to have someone use you server as a spam server. That is guaranteed to get you in trouble.

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          • veeg
            PCHF Director
            • Jul 2016
            • 8982

            #6
            Any updates for us? After 48 hrs this thread will be closed.

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