On Saturday 20 November 2004 08:33, Eric Scott wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2004 2:55 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Friday 19 November 2004 21:18, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 19 Nov 2004 15:17, Eric Scott wrote: > > > > Am I supposed to define a "mail.mydomain.org" or something? I tried > > > > what I could find in the TWiki, the only thing that looked like it > > > > might be very useful to me was a dead link (Or Konqueror was just > > > > being pesky again). BTW, what's the Mandrake mail server setup wizard > > > > thingamaboper and how do I run it? > > > > Thanx, > > > > SigmaChi > > > > > > What was the dead link? We are still re-constructing, and if any links > > > are not working we need to know about it. > > > > > > Anne > > > > If people are going to send you email you must have a domain name that > > resolves to your IP address. You either pay to register a domain name, or > > you could use a dynamic DNS service from someone like dyndns.org who will > > give you one for free. > > Once you have a domain name Postfix needs to know what it is. Then any > > mail Postfix revceives addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) gets > > passed to eric's local mailbox. > > > > derek > > Yeah, I have a domain straight to my IP, sipca.org. (It's a little pesky, > because the organization I run the server has a Windows Domain network with > the same name.... so at the moment they can't access www.sipca.org on the > web because every time they do it finds their Windows Domain Controller and > think's it's www.sipca.org... blasted Windows messed things up again) > Anyway, I might be able to figure it out with google now, but while we're > on the topic, how do I "tell postfix" that it's running for sipca.org? Via > webmin, preferably, but I can handle a little config-file editing now and > again... newbie though I be. > Thanx, > SigmaChi
With the 'mydomains' parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf or with webmin. mydomains should include sipca.org, localhost, and the local subnet. That way Postfix will allow mail to be sent by anyone in your local network, but noone else. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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