Comments on: WHS as a Free Email Server

By: EricE

EricE — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:29:42 +0000

Excellent article and thanks for posting the detailed instructions (so often missing on other sites as you note).

And certainly easier than running Exchange!

By: Alex Icann

Alex Icann — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:00:17 +0000

wow another free stuff! thanks for sharing this one. cheers!=)

By: Gerald Richards

Gerald Richards — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:22:21 +0000

ok after I set up the home server in the window home server, how do I access any mail from it and how do I set up my outlook 2007 to access the mail?

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:27:41 +0000

Did you require authentication?

By: A2daZ

A2daZ — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:37:13 +0000

I used the following as my pop3 ***.mydomain.com and SMTP as my ISP SMTP address (cause my isp restricted port 25); to setup Outlook Express. I was able to send out email message, however I couldnt receive any emails. I'm getting this error message when run Receive All in Outlook Express:

"Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible cause for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account '***.mydomain.com', server 'mydomain.com', Protocol: POP3, Port 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F.

I did verified that PORT 110 is open @ the router.

Please let me know if you can help, thanks in advance.

By: justcallmedollars

justcallmedollars — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:49:53 +0000

Just checking, is this article still relevant one year later? Someone pointed me here but it’s a bit old.

By: John

John — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:10:29 +0000

I’ve obtained my domain at homeserver.com. However, there is no MX record for it (All mails sent to the address were failed). How do I add the MX record via WHS? Thanks!

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:05:26 +0000

I will eventually write a tutorial on setting up outlook, mail, or outlook express to get mail from your hmailserver. The easiest way to explain for now is to use your servers, ip address or given homeservername as the smtp and pop server.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:32:44 +0000

How do one access the emails thru outlook???? or even set up webmail… i have installed hmailserver and it all very well, it even says i have a message but what the point of it if i can’t read it??????

By: eBabble » Blog Archive » SOHO Email

eBabble » Blog Archive » SOHO Email — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:15:04 +0000

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