Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 22 oct 21, 11:09:14, Martin McCormick wrote: > One more question I should know the answer to but am not sure of. > The debian Buster system I use for email presently uses fetchmail > to get mail from the ISP and is configured to use that ISP's > smarthost for out-going mail. I do not want

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Fri 22 Oct 2021 at 11:09:14 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > I was all ready to use .local as our domain name and then > I looked that up and there is a good wikipedia article which > explains how that is problematic and recommends using something > like .lan, .office or something else

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 11:09 AM Martin McCormick wrote: > . > When I was researching, the article in wikipedia I read > said that many commercial systems have email clients which > understand imap, pop3, etc. The systems likely to do this on our > network are a windows10 box, an

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 8:21 PM Martin McCormick wrote: > > My thanks to all who replied and thanks for reminding me of some > of the considerations one needs to think of when setting this all > up since that's what I used to do as part of my job before > retiring in 2015. As for there

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread Joe
On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:09:14 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > > Shouldn't I be able to install an imap server on the > debian box and forward messages of interest to it, then reach > imap4 on the private net from any system that speaks imap or has > an imap client? > Yes, certainly. An

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-22 Thread Martin McCormick
One more question I should know the answer to but am not sure of. The debian Buster system I use for email presently uses fetchmail to get mail from the ISP and is configured to use that ISP's smarthost for out-going mail. I do not want to effect (= muck this up) this functionality because it

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread mick crane
On 2021-10-20 19:16, Joe wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows systems for a similar effect. Indeed so, it is even in a folder

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Martin McCormick
Joe writes: > Indeed so, it is even in a folder called 'etc', which I think is in a > 'drivers' folder. It's a while since I used it. There may be an > existing default or example \etc\hosts file. The LMHosts file is also > here, but of interest only to Windows networks for speeding up share >

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Joe
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Also, I have put /etc/hosts files on Linux systems and a > Mac and I believe there is a hosts file one can add to Windows > systems for a similar effect. > > Indeed so, it is even in a folder called 'etc', which I think is in

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 11:46:11 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send > mail to each other? I know of no reason why not. However, one thing to be careful of: These are class C networks, so the default netmask will be 255.255.255.0. With that, you will

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 20 oct 21, 19:14:20, deloptes wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > > The installation, here, is like millions of others.  We are on a > > private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's > > network and the internet.  There is nothing unusual about that so > > the question

Re: eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > The installation, here, is like millions of others.  We are on a > private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's > network and the internet.  There is nothing unusual about that so > the question is Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send >

eMail Com Between Hosts on a Private Net

2021-10-20 Thread Martin McCormick
The installation, here, is like millions of others. We are on a private VLAN with the router acting as the gateway to our ISP's network and the internet. There is nothing unusual about that so the question is Can systems on a 192.168.x VLAN use smtp to send mail to each other? I really