On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 13:52:30 -0400 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Now I figure that if I get a mail server up on aeis.tv reliably, I > have done everything I'm paying the host for now, right? > > And if I can learn enough to keep it up, I get a gold star, > hopefully before the guys in the white coats come for me. > > I'm going to /etc/postfix/main.cf right now and see what trouble > lurks therein. Setting up Postfix is easy as falling off a chair if all you want to do is send and receive mail on your LAN, however, there are some important points to consider. 1. In /etc/main.cf, make sure you still use your ISP's smtp as a relay agent, or else you will end up blacklisted. RBL's are very quick to do this when they see traffic coming from IP blocks that belong to ISP's, ie. "consumer" IP ranges, even static ones. 2. Make sure that in main.cf, it will relay mail *only* from your LAN, or else you become an open relay for spammers, and you *do not* want to do that. Receiving mail should be no prob, as long as your ISP is not blocking port 25, and No-IP (which I use, BTW) keeps your IP updated. I got it working in minutes with another domain (orderinchaos) but for some weird reason No-IP wants $ to keep that updated soooooo... Make sure, of course, that port 25 is forwarded to your Postfix box on the router. Then, install the Imap package on the Postfix server so that each client on yer LAN can "POP" the server for mai. This package is, IIRC, on the MDK CD's. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the tracks.
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