Hosting Email Server on Synology (Issues)

[p11]

Hey Fellas,

Having a hard time hosting my email service on my DS212J. To be I honest, I have no idea where to start.

Info:

IP Address using Synology DDNS: example.synology.me
Domain: example.ca

 

[/usr/home]

On Namecheap, you have the correct buttons, but at the bottom of the page there in the SS, for hostname put in "@" and in the mailserver hostname put in "mail.domain.com". Now create a A record for "mail" that points to your IP.

On the Synology, put in "domain.com" for the domain name. Set 10MB for the max size (can go higher if you want, 10 is pretty standard.) You shouldn't need SMTP Relay.

Do you have a static IP? If you don't good luck getting it to work properly.

 

[p11]

Thanks I'll give it a shot. No, unfortunately no static IP. But my server is using Synology's DDNS so it shouldn't be an issue right?

 

[/usr/home]

The issue is a majority of the mail servers out there use blacklists and on those blacklists are pretty much every dynamic IP range there is. You'll be able to send mail but you may get bounce backs and have the messages going into spam folders. Also ISPs like to block port 25 on dynamic connections.

 

[marley1]

Didnt know synologys had mail server

 

[/usr/home]

They have pretty much everything. I love mine.

 

[Cheetoz]

I would set up SMTP relaying through your ISP's server so your emails don't get rejected