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Small Email Server - No outgoing emails
Hey,
So I've been researching and trying to be the most cost effective here as I can. I'm trying to find a way to host a email server but it won't need outgoing emails. I know it's weird but the purpose is to create e-mails using some control panel or whatever. Then have others who have the login info access it using some online client or so. The most they'll receive is probably 1 inbound e-mai and then most likely won't be using it anymore. The point of blocking outgoing e-mails is because they really have no use for it and I could avoid suspentions or possible spam.
Could a small server do this? I've been reading about mailinabox but not sure if it actually requires 1gb ram like most posts say or so.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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If you don't need clamav, I've ben fine with 512MB RAM with vestacp
would it not be cheaper to get a cheap cpanel account and simply use cpanel API with a custom front end to setup the email accounts and delete them
Hmm I suppose. By CPanel account you mean actually getting some sort of shared hosting? The problem is I don't know if we're able to block outgoing emails. But I guess I can always ask the host to do so for me
Oh that's enough? I'll research it then. Thank you!
@ss93 Its all down to how much you are willing to spend, I could do this for you no problem and just set your account to not have outbound, i can do this on all our packages and they all come with unlimited email addresses the only limiting factor is system resources i.e cpu ram etc and disk space
Go with mxroute @jar ($30/y)... I believe it's possible to block outgoing emails.
cPanel allows this, you can click "manage" on any mailbox and set restrictions.
So any cheap shared hosting will work for this, @HostMantis comes to mind. (screenshot is from a hostmantis account)
I've been running postfix+dovecot+spamassassin+postgrey+iptables+sshguard in a BuyVM 128MB OpenVZ VPS for about 5 years with plenty of headroom.
As @ITLabs said: You could simply go with MXroute and disable outgoing messages for all mailboxes. Easiest thing to to, quite cheap (maybe even compared to a VPS) and removes the headache.
as @Skander said you can do it in any cpanel i was simply offering you my services, call it a shameless plug :P, Literally any shared hosting well work for you
If cPanel can do what you want, I'd definitely recommend using a shared hosting since it'll be cheaper and the provider will manage the server for you. I recommend VPShared (aff link), as it was really stable for me (I'm currently using it), and it costs $1.95/y minimum (use coupon 35VPSHARED). You can also contact @Bopie and work someting out since he's a reasonable guy
I am of course reasonable haha if I'm honest if its just emails depending on how much disk space it really wouldn't cost much at all and I can also block outgoing on the account from server level instead of inside cPanel to save some time of manually doing it.