On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:49:05PM +0000, Shadrik Easton wrote:
> Hi there. Yeh I understand I prolly did leave a lot out. sorry. :)
That's how we learn. A quick note,in most cases, rather than top
posting--that is, posting above the email you're answering, inline
posting is preferred. That is, answer point A beneath point A, then
quote point B, then answer point B, etc.
Now, last time I posted something like this, it started a new thread
with folks saying how wonderful top posting is--please note, anyone
tempted to post about that--I'm trying to answer the original poster's
questions. If you're also providing him with answers, then fine, state
your views, but as for me, if someone persists in top posting, I simply
stop reading their posts. If you're also answering his questions, well
and good, but last time, I was the only one answering the questions.
Anyway, back to your email.
>
> 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.
Yes, this should be ok. So if you go to ping meh.silk.com, does it come
out as the external address on your 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?
>
Yes. WAN=Wide Area Network. LAN=Local Area Network. So, as your
router's external IP faces the world, that's your WAN. It's not on your
local subnet. So, yes, the idea is that if you have your mail server on
192.168.1.50 then on the router, with the address of say, 66.22.22.22 (I
just pulled that out of the air) you forward port 25 to 192.168.1.50.
> 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
>
I've forgotten which distribution you are using, however---keep in mind
that setting up this server would pretty much be the same thing on any
of them. The reason is that you are actually installing a 3rd party
program. For example, I can move my FreeBSD postfix configuration to a
RedHat machine with almost no changes--probably the only thing I'd have
to do would be to change anything listing /usr/local to /usr (since
FreeBSD puts everything not installed with the base system in /usr/local
and RH doesn't.)
So, the first question is whether or not pinging meh.silk.com gives your
router's external IP address.
It is a long and frustrating learning curve--you say, "If I weren't so
stubborn..." however, being stubborn can be a help.
--
Scott Robbins
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