"Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home
> network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated
> on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my
> weakest side and I need a little help.
>
> I have no real internet name for the box, which I call "schfrbsd"
> (named with a dot at the end in rc.conf hostname="schfrbsd."). Using
> that name, I've managed to get Samba working and a local web server,
> but when I come to mail, I get confused. The network is made up of a
> bunch of XP Home Machines, the FreeBSD 4.9 machine, and a Netgear
> Router/Firewall that also runs DHCP. I don't think it's relevant here,
> but the workgroup name I use for Samba and Windows Peer Networking is
> "olympia". The router is called schrout, if that helps.
If the router can do DNS as well as DHCP, that will help you out a lot.
> When I come to configuring postfix, there are entries for myhostname
> and mydomain. I believe myhostname should be schbsd. What do I use for
> mydomain? Where should I be naming the domain?
"myhostname" will default to whatever hostname(1) says.
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