Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions

2000-09-14 Thread John Clarke
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 09:04:40PM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote: > But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ? You have to configure your sendmail to relay for that domain. Exactly how depends upon the version of sendmail you have. For 8.8, add the domain to /etc/mail/rel

Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions

2000-09-14 Thread James Wilkinson
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Terry Collins generated: >Jason Rennie wrote: > >> But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ? > >As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that >collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your >clients poll

Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Rennie
> As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that > collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your > clients poll it as well. > > However, it still relies on bigpond, or whoever provides your MX records > listing your secondary mail server in their names

Re: [SLUG] Email Server Questions

2000-09-14 Thread Terry Collins
Jason Rennie wrote: > But how do i get sendmail to accept mail as a secondary mail server ? As I understand it, you don't. You just set it up as a mail server that collects the mail and passes it onto the main later, or have your clients poll it as well. However, it still relies on bigpond, or

[SLUG] Email Server Questions

2000-09-14 Thread Jason Rennie
Hi all, Assuming this arrives,(sadly a dubious prospect seemingly) I'm getting jack of the rubbish that passes for tech support and mail serving through bigpond.com I've been losing incoming mail for days, and i've had enough. How hard is it to set a machine up as a secondary mail server ? I'