> On Wednesday 17 November 2004 01:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> <rant>
>> (Which, might I add, has suffered numerous times from virus/worm/adware
>> infections in the same time period which my Linux server has been
>> running
>> bug-free on the same internet T1 IN FRONT of their firewall and WITHOUT
>> it's own. I was smart enough to enable the firewall last week though...
>> if it was a Windows box I'd have been dead long ago.)
>> </rant>
>>
>> >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
>
> Neither Sendmail nor Postfix are POP3 servers. they are both SMTP servers
> which will transport mail from your clients to their final destination,
> and
> will receive mail via SMTP from people sending to you.
>
> If you want to fetch mail from POP3 servers and then route it with SMTP,
> then
> you need to stick 'fetchmail' in front of your SMTP server, and if you
> want
> to provide mail to your clients with Pop 3 you will need to install a POP3
> server behind your SMTP server. The same packages that do PoP3 also
> support
> IMAP. Examples are 'imap' and 'courier-imap-pop'
>
> From what you say You already have an SMTP mail server, running on
> MicroSoft?
> But I am not clear what you are trying to achieve with Pop3 Can you
> provide
> more details?
>
Sorry about the misunderstanding; I shoulda looked more into what I'm
talking about before I posted. I don't run the network of the company I'm
setting this up for, but I have a web server on their internet connection
(It was an "I give you cheap website construction:You give me bandwidth:I
build more websites for other peeps" deal). They're getting ready to set
up a mail server, but want it in front of their primary firewall for the
network. I'm in front of their firewall, and so I'm gonna run their mail.
From what I gather they already have an SMTP server running, but the
important part is I asked them and they said all they needed was POP3, not
SMTP.
So yeah; QMail has a POP3 component doesn't it? I've never set up a
POP3 server before and am starting from scratch here.
Thanx,
SigmaChi
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