Hi list, before going on with some ideas i'm not really sure about i'd like to throw some simple questions in - i was so far unable to find the definite right answers in the docs (lwq, faq, mailqueue). Here i have a lan of about 50 machines; 11 of them are NT WS's so far, the others will follow soon. All run NW 3.12; i use a linux box for administration purposes (remote administration, virus checking, server log checks and much more). Finally they decided that, as the internet obviously won't disappear very soon, it'd make sense to set up eMail and later all the other nice things it offers. Some domains were reserved. We have a provider who puts all the mails for all the domains in one account where we can poll them through pop3. For some reasons we use an isdn router to connect, so there's no difficulties setting up the ppp link. I got qmail and several recommended packages (rblsmtpd, daemontools, serialmail and some others i don't remember) and set up the system quite easily to accept clients in the local net (so they can send and receive with outlook) using maildir (have you ever tried maildirmake -h? Nice experience 8^). What i'm not really sure about is how to get/send from/to the rest of the world...is the recommended way to use the serialmail - package to send and fetchmail to get the messages? I suppose i won't be able to convince my provider to change his systems...besides that, looking at the log files it seems i have to modify qmail's regular behaviour to wait for the delivery somehow because i get these CNAME_LOOKUP FAILED TEMPORARILY messages over and over again - of course i do as there's no DNS who could help. If anyone has done something similar before (and i suppose most of you have) you'd do me a big favour if you could tell me how you did it; maybe you're even willing to answer one question or the other afterwards so i don't have to spam the list with this... TIA, Daniel
