Mandrake set postfix up on mdk9 to run in a chroot jail... have a look in /var/spool/postfix/etc
the files in there should match those in your /etc also look in /var/spool/postfix/lib There should be nine lib files in there... *.so There should also be sevem symlinks to other libs. *.so.2 Sometimes the install fails and you have to remove and reinstall postfix to get it all sorted.. I know I had to do this when I started with mdk9.0 rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: Monday, 10 February 2003 8:47 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] quick and dirty local mail server On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 21:36, Brian Parish wrote: > I need to set up a mail server based on Mdk 9.0 tomorrow to serve local > mail only. i.e. Just to be a pop server for W$ client machines on the > LAN. No relaying outside the network. > > I have approx. zero time to do this. Can anyone offer the simplest way > or point me at the appropriate URL? > > TIA > Brian OK - bad form to reply to your own posts, but I think I've made it part way. I've installed postfix and it's running with default settings. I've installed the imap rpm and can see in webmin that the pop3 server is enabled within the xinetd thingy. So now I can check for new messages and presumably if there were some, I would get them. If I try to send to the server using smtp however, I get connection refused on port 25. The firewall shouldn't be implicated as this is coming from the trusted interface, but I opened port 25 just on case. No change. I assume that postfix is providing the smtp server functionality, so maybe I haven't switched on what needs to the switched on there? As always, all input gratefully received. TIA Brian
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