how to setup local email server

[shahid]

hello guise
i want to set a local mail server. which send emails to the internet users.
but i don't know how to do that. can u plz help me.

thx

[TomGibbons]

Do you have any particular mail server software in mind? Are you wanting to set up a domain for the email addresses (in which case you need a fixed IP) ?

[Ideas Man]

(in which case you need a fixed IP) ?
Or a dynamic IP service such as DynDNS.org (http://www.dyndns.org).

Microsoft IIS provides a fully functioning SMTP server if you wish to use that, to install it very easy to do, open Add/Remove Programs -> Windows Components -> Internet Information Services (IIS) and find the SMTP server item, check it and install it.

[shahid]

thx for reply.
i have windows xp and i installed smtp service.
now how can i send emails thru it and also plz define the 2nd option

thx

[Ideas Man]

What's the second option? If you're referring to the DynDNS thing, that simply allows you to have a dynamically allocated IP address and bind it to a DNS name. Doing this will allow you to send email through your email server all the time, even if you change IP address.

With the SMTP server, all I can remember doing was installing it and sending emails to it, it seemed to do the rest all by itself.