Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-18 Thread Jordan R. Thompson
I got pop-before-SMTP as suggested, but I can't find any documentation for it. I am afraid to install it without any documentation as it may do more harm than good until I get it configured right. Does anyone have documentation on this or can send me their configuration files? I am using

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I guess I have two thougts: 1) change the port number 2)

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 9:52 pm, Jordan Thompson wrote: Hi all, OK, now that I think that everything is working (I'l find out for sure tomorrow when I try to access my mail server from outside my ISP) I want to control who sends mail through my smpt server. What is the best way to do this? I

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
By default Postfix will only relay mail for users on the local network (to avoid spammers taking over your mail server). So without having to do *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) Well, the reason I set this up was so

RE: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Marlo Montanaro
snip -Original Message- *anything* you are pretty secure. (By relay, I mean accept a mail and forward it on to another mail server) derek /snip Let's just be clear on a relay so we don't confuse the new guys... A relay is sending mail from one **domain** to another **domain**

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-17 Thread Jordan Thompson
I use pop-before-smtp for this. Mandrake RPMs can be found using rpmfind.net. The home page (popbsmtp.sourceforge.net) doesn't appear to be available right now. I think I have this on my machine already, but I can't remember how to get to it. Anyway, pop-before-smtp allows your server to

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 01:50, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up a mailserveron9.0? You're probably running

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 02:48, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: If you want to fetchmail for more than one user you should run it as a daemon as root in which case it uses the /etc/fetchmailrc configuration file. The easiest way to configure this is just to install the fetchmail-daemon RPM,

RE: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Franki
]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Saturday, 16 November 2002 4:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0? On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 01:50, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 November 2002 03:47 pm, you wrote: There is a definate problem with postfix on mdk9.0 I installed it on two box's.. one was a clean install, the other was an upgrade from beta4. in both cases, there were symlinks missing from the postfix lib directory... I had to remove

RE: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-15 Thread Franki
4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0? On Friday 15 November 2002 03:47 pm, you wrote: There is a definate problem with postfix on mdk9.0 I installed it on two box's.. one was a clean install, the other was an upgrade from

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 15:43, Jordan Thompson wrote: I have another clue: I can now email from the command line on the mandrake machine and have it go out to the isp and back again and receive it on my windows clients, but I cannot connect to my mandrake machine to send mail via smtp. This is

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 15:12, Jordan Thompson wrote: I am getting mail OK, so I don't think I want to monkey with fetchmail (if it ain't broke - don't fix it.) waayyy cool! I finally have webmin running. thanks for that! You're probably running POSTFIX as your SMTP/POP3 server for your