Hi there. Yeh I understand I prolly did leave a lot out. sorry. :) When you say registered domain name, I have a free subdomain at silk.com which is meh.silk.com which points at my external address. can I use this? being as I acquired it from afraid.org for free I wasnt sure. If I can then Im assuming I just point port 25 to the same on my router.
Ive got a basic grasp of the whole pop3/smtp thing (basic!) Im assuming that when u say routers WAN interface, you mean like my routers external ip? thanks for the heads up, I'll begin the battle once more. If I wasnt so stubborn I'd try using another distro like deb/rh/bsd or suthin. *sighs thanks again. Shad. > > Hiya, I've been arguing with sendmail and/or postfix for ages now, > > trying all sorts of things to get it running on my machine as a mail > server. > > The end result that I would LIKE to see is that I can register a > domain, > > point it to my machine, and configure sendmail to use my machine as the > > mail server. that way I can set it up for other people around my local > > area to use as their preferred mail (once i work out squirrelmail) > > I assume you mean people who are not on your local network? The trouble > is that you've left out a great deal of information, so it is hard for > us to help you. > > Firstly, do you have a registered domain name? That is something like > shad.net where if I do a whois or dig shad.net I'm eventually going to > find that the DNS points to your router's WAN interface? > > If you don't understand that question, then you've got to start there > before you even think of a public mail server. The first thing is that > you must have a publicly accessible mail server. Then you set your > router to forward requests on port 25 to your local IP address. > > If all this is clear, then I would recommend postfix, as I feel it's > easier to set up. I would recommend, even though it's dated and for > FreeBSD, > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/postfix.php > <http://www.freebsddiary.org/postfix.php> > > This will get you started on configuring postfix. > > If you didn't understand the other parts, about having a domain name > point to your WAN interface and all that, you have to get that done > first. > > -- > Scott Robbins > > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > Buffy: Cordelia, your mouth is open, sound is coming from it, > this is never good. > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
