Soldato
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Hey all,
I've heard plenty of references to a method of managing your emails where (please excuse/correct me if I have the details slightly wrong) you do something like:
The idea being that if any of the extra accounts aren't needed anymore or get compromised you can easily get rid of them or replace them. Are the steps above about right? I thought I had it clear in my head but I went on "godaddy" who I had vaguely heard of and in their pricing list it mentions that the different tiers come with e.g. "100 email accounts" or "500 email accounts" and talks about the amount of storage etc. Does that mean the service there includes some sort of hosting (and hence I don't need the separate server to run the mail server on?)
I'm doing this partly out of curiosity and to learn - so doubt I'd start seriously making use of it until I've had a change to play about and do some testing and such... I have plenty of experience with Linux so no troubles there (though I've never setup a mail server!) Appreciate any advice and experiences on this
Is there a way I can try some of this out via a trial or without committing any money? Or can I mess about with a local version on a spare machine/VM at home to see how the setup works?
I've heard plenty of references to a method of managing your emails where (please excuse/correct me if I have the details slightly wrong) you do something like:
- Register a cheap domain name
- Rent out a small private server (I was already planning to do this for other purposes)
- Configure a mail server to receive emails for your domain
- Create one "master" email account which you use for communication but don't give out when signing up for things
- When signing up to anything else you can then just create extra accounts which forward messages to your main account
The idea being that if any of the extra accounts aren't needed anymore or get compromised you can easily get rid of them or replace them. Are the steps above about right? I thought I had it clear in my head but I went on "godaddy" who I had vaguely heard of and in their pricing list it mentions that the different tiers come with e.g. "100 email accounts" or "500 email accounts" and talks about the amount of storage etc. Does that mean the service there includes some sort of hosting (and hence I don't need the separate server to run the mail server on?)
I'm doing this partly out of curiosity and to learn - so doubt I'd start seriously making use of it until I've had a change to play about and do some testing and such... I have plenty of experience with Linux so no troubles there (though I've never setup a mail server!) Appreciate any advice and experiences on this
Is there a way I can try some of this out via a trial or without committing any money? Or can I mess about with a local version on a spare machine/VM at home to see how the setup works?