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Setting up a small site for cheap
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2018-02-02 at 8:03 AM UTCSo it's up and running but I've noticed that a lot of ports are open by default. 25 is open and it appears that it came with a smtp server pre-installed. I can't seem to successfully send emails though. I've tried routing through my NOIP domain(which has functionality for mail...it's set for 'mail.mydomainname.com'...as well as ftp) but they all get returned.
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2018-02-02 at 8:37 AM UTCPost the bounceback, you can redact hosts or just pm me if you don't want to leak data
I'd expect the mailer isn't properly configured; you may need to set up authentication or security standards for your inbound server to accept it -
2018-02-07 at 12:55 AM UTCI'm getting error sending to my server from my Yahoo mail account, and it freezes when I try to send out an email on my server. The log gives connection error but I am connected to the internet.
I get a returned mail in my Yahoo mailbox with an error of "No mx record found for domain". -
2018-02-07 at 12:57 AM UTC
Originally posted by SBTlauien If I current have a domain name registered, how can I set up a very small website using the domain name, along with an email server that uses the domain name, for the cheapest price possible?
I currently it registered using NOIP. I don't think I'll need any server side scripting, just a static page. But I will need email service.
$3.88/month
https://www.powweb.com/ -
2018-02-07 at 4:11 AM UTC
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2018-02-07 at 4:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by NARCassist i'm currently doing something very similar, setting up a website for a business. we're going with paid protonmail accounts which will enable us to put the company web domain as the @protonmail.com part and keeping all the smtp shit very simple indeed. i can't remember how much it was now for the protonmail accounts but it was fucking cheap. like $6 a month or summing silly.
anyway, i'd be interested with which solution you put in place, and when i put the company website up i will be more than happy to let you know what we decided to go with and why. ours is simple like yours, no ecommerce solutions or anything. just giving the company a simple web presence for now. you know, so they don't look like fucking amateurs and that.
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Was also gonna say protonmail. -
2018-02-07 at 12:33 PM UTC
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2018-02-08 at 12:58 PM UTC
Originally posted by SBTlauien I'm getting error sending to my server from my Yahoo mail account, and it freezes when I try to send out an email on my server. The log gives connection error but I am connected to the internet.
I get a returned mail in my Yahoo mailbox with an error of "No mx record found for domain".
I understand you have some kind of 'mail.domain.com' record but this doesn't make mail work. MX record tells other people where to contact the mail server for your domain. Sometimes it's different from the webserver, for example. In this case it should point to the same server IP or to your mail.domain.com which leads to the same place.
Edit: there is precedent to only point it to the domain and not the IP but I didn't notice a problem when I did it wrong before :D https://serverfault.com/questions/663112/why-cant-mx-records-point-to-an-ip-address
https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215032408-What-is-an-MX-record-
Lookup tool to verify: https://mxtoolbox.com/
Then of course you need a mail server running. I don't know what OS / distro you're on but I've never had one come with a working mailserver. You may be looking at sendmail or something. That won't really do what you want, you should look into setting up postfix + dovecot or something like that. Or look into these:
https://www.iredmail.org/
https://mailinabox.email/
https://modoboa.org/en/ -
2018-02-08 at 1:46 PM UTC
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2018-02-08 at 3:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by SBTlauien I'm getting error sending to my server from my Yahoo mail account, and it freezes when I try to send out an email on my server. The log gives connection error but I am connected to the internet.
I get a returned mail in my Yahoo mailbox with an error of "No mx record found for domain".
don't listen to the other dickheads except the brackets guy.
If you have access to your DNS records, ie. if your site is niggercum.com you should have access to update, add or delete records.
IF YOU DO NOT, EITHER ASK YOUR PROVIDER TO SET UP MX RECORDS OR GO ELSEWHERE.
You could create a CNAME record for old.niggercum.com so if someone tries to access www.niggercum.com it redirects them to the main site.
With your issue in particular, you need to create a new record of the type MX. Much like your browser checks the site's IP when you go to it, a foreign mailserver will check the MX record to find out where to send mail.
Assume your site is niggercum.com.
Assume your mailserver is mail.niggercum.com
If someone sends an email to bigtoby@niggercum.com, how does their server know that mail is supposed to end up on mail.niggercum.com?
You need to create an MX record for the niggercum.com domain with the value of mail.niggercum.com. Even if the mailserver is actually on niggercum.com, you need to create an MX record for it.
If you want further clarification, have a look how it works in the wild - run nslookup -type=mx google.com - you'll see google in particular has a whole bunch of tiered Mail eXchangers; if you try it on smaller sites you'll probably see they only have one or two.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-02-08 at 3:19 PM UTC
