Yes it can! We have the scripts ready to install and go live for free ilovephysics.com webhosting, but I haven't had the time to get them up and running quite yet.

Now that I know there is interest, I will dedicate this weekend to getting the web hosting and email up and ready.

I think Bex_the_physics_geek_lives@ilovephysics.com would be rather amusing although alittle long, hmmm back to the drawing board!

Bex

wow thats super groovy thanks Chris! I'll be able to give it to fellow physics geeks when I go for my interviews at various universities other the next few months.

Bex

Hi Chris,

It's been a while since I've posted here.  It's amazing how much work can be assigned :-/

Chris wrote:

It appears someone registered an email account through the software set up on my test server. They have been sending out Nigerian scam letters. Strange, considering you can't just browse onto the application. You have to know exactly what to type, and google doesn't index it.

Unfortunately, spammers (and wanna-be hackers [script kiddies]) simply tell software to scan IP addresses, looking for open ports that they can send spam out of or exploit.  And even more unfortunately, they don't need an "account" if a single setting is wrong on the mail server (it's scary, but anyone can send anybody an email from "anyone," anywhere).

Chris wrote:

I HATE spammers.

Me too.  If you'd like, I can try to go through some of the settings with you and see what we can do to get everything working.  As someone who's mail server was used for the same thing (and it is now secured against all of that), I may be able to help.  Feel free to contact me via email.