[NTLUG:Discuss] mailserver

[Bug Hunter]

  If you are running Red Hat linux, then change /etc/sendmail.cw to have
your host name that is known over the internet in it.  at that point it
can receive mail to that hostname.   ie: ctelcom.net


You must get a  domain name from one of the internet host name services
(http://www.internic.net, advertisements for hosting can be found at
http://www.netscape.com).  Once you have a domain name, someone has to set
up a DNS server to resolve your host name to an IP address.

  You must get an IP address from an ISP.  This ip address needs to be
fixed.  I think you can get a dynamic dns service from dyndns.org (or
something like that). The problem is that if your PPP connection drops,
then someone else will be getting your mail delivered to their box for a
while, if they log in and pick up the ip address you had when you lost
your connection.

bug

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 bobby at wrennest.com wrote:

> Since it has come up again, I will try this question again. In a Window$
> environment I can get one package (SLMail) for a reasonable price and
> have complete email service (list, groups, alias, forwards, etc.) in
> under 30 minutes. I know the server has to be rebooted now and then but
> the software works. I don't have to get a degree to install it. And the
> interface is simple enough I can have a non-PC literate person adding
> and deleting users in under 30 minutes.
> 
> I know "Real Geeks" want it to be hard enough that only the truly devout
> can master "The System". But really folks I still am not sure what all
> the pieces are. Much less how to configure them.
> 
> So, for the umpteenth time on the umpteenth list. What are the pieces
> necessary to run an email service? I know I need a client (got plenty of
> those). And I have derived from this and other threads that I need an
> MTA and POP server. Is that all? How do they interact? Do they interact?
> 
> I have been running Linux as my desktop OS for over two years and I can
> do most any thing I want except the one. Help, please?
> 
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