Mail server add-on for ReadyNAS?

claykin wrote:
If you plan to do it the way Milhouse is, then you don't need to open port 25.

That's exactly what I was saying right from the beginning.

claykin wrote:
In that case you are not truly hosting your own mail, someone else is.

It may be due to my limited knowledge of the English language, but: As far as I could read in this thread, nobody wanted to host his own mail server with fully qualified MX record on the ReadyNAS in the first place. It was all about added value ... errr ... additional features to complement already existing accounts with external service providers. And in that kind of usage szenario, I don't think a mail server on the ReadyNAS would be more of a security threat than any normal email client.

Of course you're right that once you start connecting such a setup to the internet directly a lot of bad things may happen. But I believe the majority of ReadyNAS users don't even have an own domain to begin with.

Regards,
-Stefan