On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 13:58, Randy Kramer wrote: > > > Do some more reading of the docs, and if you have more questions, just > > > post them. > > (I'm not the original poster.) I've read some documents (on the order > of a year ago) and still have not set up my mail server. I believe (and > I'm looking for confirmation) that I don't have to have a registered > domain name to run a mail server.
This is partially true. To receive mail, you need to have a domain to which people can send. And to send or relay mail, many servers are set to refuse mail from another server (like yours) to which they can't do a dns lookup and verify your server's fully qualified domain name (fqdn). One workaround for this is to register with dyndns.org or another free dns service, in which you will be given a host name like sildara.dyndns.org (that's mine). Then, if you set up your mail server to use this valid fqdn, you are good to go. I use postfix, and it was quite simple to get going. > To get specific, I have an email address at my isp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). > When I set up my mail server at home, I plan to give it an arbitrary > fully qualified domain name (that will not be registered) and then use > aliases or whatever to make the system work. (I'll probably use > fetchmail to get the mail, let postfix / procmail sort it, then let > postfix send it. I won't need the FQDN for fetchmail, but I guess I > will need if for Postfix so that upstream mail providers don't think I'm > an illegal relay (or whatever).) (I'll probably use something like > system8.home.z as my non-registered FQDN, where system8 is the host name > of my main Linux box, home is the workgroup of my Windows network, and z > is totally arbitrary, but avoids any chance of collision with a real two > or three letter top level domain.) I use a non-registered domain internally as well, but for external domain name resolution you will need something that everyone else can find. It sounds like you already know this. Postfix is really easy to configure, and the included documentation has three sample configs for various sizes of networks. I host two domains (one non-registered, one registered), plus the dyndns fqdn on my server. I have both web and mail at sildara.dyndns.org. > Detailed pointers would be appreciated, but a general "yes, this can > work, you're on the right track" (or the opposite) would be very > helpful. > > Randy Kramer Sounds like you're on the right track ;-) Dave -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy, and good with ketchup.
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