How to use a PC as an email server?

Using your desktop PC as an email server to send email messages and bypass your ISPs email server-- is basically a simple process that only requires a mail server program. A freeware version can be downloaded from www.argosoft.com/

Setting up your PC as a mail server

A mail server program is to send email directly from your PC to your recipients ISP mail server and bypass your own ISP mail server.

ArGoSoft Mail Server Freeware program - After you have download www.argosoft.com and installed it, you can to set it up while off-line.

For Dial-up modem users
Enter your point back "loopback" address 127.0.0.1
You will need to check the current DNS Server IP Address and enter it here every time you log-on before you can send email from your PCs (for dial-up users).

For always on DSL, ADSL, Network, Cable users
Enter your DNS Server IP Address (no changes thereafter).

That's it, you are all set and ready to send email from MailsBroadcast--using your PCs as a mail server. Dial-up modem user must log-on, to check and change the DNS Server IP Address before sending any emails.

About DNS Servers and IP address?

This is how to identify your PCs mail server name?

To use your PCs as a mail server--it need a nameserver to identify itself to all your recipients ISP mail server and...

If you are using an email client for example: Outlook Express or Eudora to send email and if you have an account with AOL you will be sending it to Outgoing mail SMTP aol.com and AOL.com is the nameserver About DNS Servers and IP address?

For Windows 95/98/Me log-in to the Internet
Click >Start>Settings >Control Panel>Network >Identification and you will be able to identify your PCs name (note it down) and click:
 >Start  >Run  >Open >key-in winipcfg >OK

At dialog box click >More Info button to display your
dial-up DNS Server--Notice below example:
DNS Servers 204.101.251.2

Dial-up modem DNS Servers changes with each log-in and will need to go through this procedure each time and key-in the DNS Servers address--for AgroSoft mail server program.

Always-on users (ISDN, DSL, Cable, Network etc.) will have a permanent DNS Server IP Address and enter it only once.

For Windows 2000, NT, XP Log-in to the Internet
Click >Start >Settings>Control Panel >System>Computer Name >Computer Description: (enter name, note it down).
And then click:
 >Start  >Run  >Open >key-in cmd.exe  >OK

At the command prompt key-in ipconfig/all and hit enter key

Step 1
At Broadcast Manager menu select...

a. Create a Broadcast Delivery Account...

b. Enter a name for it - any name, this name is just for your reference purpose only, it has no relationship nor any technical effect to the sending of emails or that the email recipients will get to see this name.
Next

c. From: enter a valid email address, this is the email address that your message will be returned (bounced) to, in the even that your message is unable to be delivered i.e. recipient mailbox full, etc.

Important: Most ISP will not allow you to send email using an email address from an ISP-1 account and login using another ISP-2 account. It is recommended to use an email address from ISP-1 together with an ISP-1 login account to broadcast your email.

d. Reply To: enter a valid email address, any valid email address, this is the address that the recipient to your broadcast message shall reply to when they click "reply" in their mail client.
Next

e. Enter the name of your outgoing SMTP mail server
You may enter localhost or 127.0.0.1

f. Requires authentication - Do not "check" tick this box
User Name: and Password: It is not required because you will be broadcasting your email messages directly to your recipients mail servers mailbox and bypassing your own ISP mail server.
Next

g. Tick "check" the box send with no time delay

OK,
you are done with the setup of your mailsbroadcast program delivery account.

Step 2
At the Broadcast Manager Menu
Select and click on "Broadcast Manager" to display the "Broadcast Manager" dialog box.
Next

Point your mouse at the "Email List" bar and right click to "Add a list for broadcasting".
Next

Point your mouse at "Message" bar and right click to "Add a message for broadcasting" and select a broadcast delivery account and click the "Back Button".
Next

Your prepared message will be displayed and you may fill in any thing you wish at the; From: To: and Subject: line
Click OK
Next

You are all set to to start broadcasting your email message...
(a) Make sure your Agrosoft mail server program is running
(b) Right Click and select "Send this message"....
(c) A broadcast dialog box will be displayed... click "SEND" and your message will be delivered to the "Agrosoft" mailserver program...
Next

Make sure you are online and connected to the internet... Go to your Agrosoft program and click on the "Send" button and all your message will be delivered to all the email addresses.

Benefits of using a PCs mail server?

Benefits of using a PCs mail server

By using your PCs as a mail server, you can send unlimited email messages without restrictions--because most ISPs limit user access to their mail server by time or the quantity of emails that can be sent.

When you are using your PCs as a mail server, the email will be sent directly to your recipient's mailbox via their ISP mail server and bypass your ISPs mail server delivery queue.

Single thread mail server can send between 500 to 5,000 or more text emails per hour with a 56Kbps V92 or ISDN modem--depending on your Internet connection bandwidth or throughput and the mail server.

*single-thread, means that emails are sent-out one after another--after the recipient mail server have accepted each email sent--the program will then proceed to send the next email (if it is not accepted, it will be kept in queue to be resend later).

**Multiple thread mail server programs (send multiple emails simultaneously to recipients ISPs mail server). They can send very large volume of emails (250,000 text mails) through Broadband system like: DSL 256/516kbps, ADSL 12/480 Mbps, or Network/Cable T1 (1.544Mbps) Internet connection using powerful high performance dedicated mail server.

Note:
Different ISPs provide different up-load and download speed--meaning that having a 256/512Kbps DSL or 480Mbps USB 2.0 High Speed or Full Speed 12 Mbps 2.0 USB ADSL download does not mean that you can up-load at the same speed, check it up with your ISPs.

It also depends on whether your motherboard support USB 2.0 (1.1 device) Full Speed device or the USB 2.0 High Speed--meaning that if you have a ADSL 2.0 USB Full Speed Modem running on USB 1.1 then you only get 12 Mbps

Emailing speed can be as slow as 500 or 5,000 text message per hour (depending on message size) using a 56K or ISDN, DSL at the lower end and for ADSL

A Network/Cable T1 (1.544Mbps) connection, may even send up-to 250,000 emails per hour--depending on the Internet connection throughput and computer mail server system capability.

How does your email gets to the recipient?
See: How email works?