[ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

[Lucy]

2008/12/25 Matthew Wild <mwild1 at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Josh Holland <jshholland at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I just bought a VPS hosting with the intention of setting up a mail
>> address for myself at jrh at jrh.co.uk . AFAICT, this involves setting up a
>> nameserver, which could also be run off the same VPS. Looking at the
>> community docs, to run a name server I need to register a domain name
>> for some extortionate price. Is there any way to bypass this, or am I on
>> completely the wrong track? (btw it is a BitFolk bottom spec hosting
>> running Hardy)
>>
>
> Without a domain name other mail servers have no way of locating your
> VPS among all the other servers on the internet. jrh.co.uk, as with
> probably all short domains, is already registered (you can type in a
> console to check: whois jrh.co.uk).

Yup, it's been registered by Commerce Internet Ltd. It doesn't appear
to have DNS set up though, so maybe it's not being used and Josh could
purchase it from its current owners?

>For what it's worth though,
> domains aren't that extortionately-priced, especially .co.uk's
> (usually £10 for 2 years).

I use 123reg.co.uk, who charge £7.50 for 2 years for .uk domains and
also provide DNS hosting. They provide email forwarding as well - I
get stuff from my domains forwarded to my gmail account at the moment.