Need advice on which direction I should go

I will be getting a broadband connection to my house soon. I want to establish a web identity including an email server. I purchased a used 1 GHz tower to use as a web server. The software on this machine is OS 10.2 Server. My question is would it be better, or easier, or both to use the installed server software or just install new client 10.4 software and use a third party email server.
Thanks
Mark

While some of the server features in 10.2 were fine, mail services were definitely not a strong point. I would take your second option and choose a 3rd party email server. A specific recommendation would depend on the proposed number of deomains, number of users and throughput.
To take care of you web domain I would install webmin from www.webmin.com to configure apache properly on 10.4.
hth,
b.

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