>>> Sorry folks, but I googled this forever and never found a howto basic >>> enough for my newbieness. I've never setup a mail server before, and >>> have >>> given up on trying to install QMail (If you have any tips, let me know) >>> on >>> my Mandrake 9.2 server. So I've installed Sendmail, and am now stuck >>> as >>> how to configure it. Webmin recognizes that it exists. I gather from >>> the >>> howtos that I've found that I have to set up a MX record or something >>> or >>> other... but I haven't found anything to as what this is or how the >>> heck >>> to set one up. >>> Any help? >>> Thanx, >>> SigmaChi >>> >>> >>> >> You may want to reconsider this, and use Postfix instead of Sendmail >> You >> can configure it by editing text files, instead of having to use m4 to >> create a configuration file for Sendmail. >> >> Mikkel >> > I should have specified from the beginning; This is a Mandrake 9.2 SERVER > that I wish to run a POP3 server on. To my understanding postfix is just > SMTP and the like; I have no need for SMTP as the organization > (www.sipca.org, which domain points to my server) I'm setting up POP3 for > runs it's own SMTP from it's Microsloth-based network. >
> >>As far as setting up an MX >> record, this is only something you need to worry about if you have your >> own domain name, and are getting your mail directly from the Internet, >> instead of getting them though a your ISP's mail server. > > So yeah, basically I do have my own domain name, am getting my mail > directly from the Internet, and am not using my ISP's mail server. > Sorry about the confusion, > SigmaChi > This is not what I was referring to - I should have been more specific. If you were using this machine to recieve mail, you would need to set up a MX record pointing to it. But you already have one pointing to the "official" SMTP server. If you are going to be sending mail from this machine, you will want some type of SMTP server for outgoing mail, even if all it does it pass it on the "official" mail server. For setting up a POP3 server, you need to install one of the POP3 or IMAP server packages. (Qmail, sendmail, and Postfix are NOT what you are looking for here - they are SMTP servers.) To get mail into this machine, you can use fetchmail, and ether have it put the mail directly into the mail box, or install a local mail delivery agent. The fetchmail docs cover this much better then I can, so I will let you read them. You may also be able to have the accounts you want to server from this machine forwarded to this machine. But that requires setup on the "official" mail server, and you did not specify what software it is running, or your access to it. Mikkel
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