[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail Help

[Scott Hollomon]

On Tue April 27 2004 11:53 am, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I have recently moved (to an area that has good DSL).  I am also trying
> to increase the functionality of my Email server.
>
> As a result, here is my current situation;
> 3 Systems, all currently running SuSE 8.2 (some will shortly be upgraded
> to SuSE 9.0)
> 1) Email server (at j2EEguys.com) -- currently acting as a redirector
> for my professional email (using Sendmail)
> 2) Home Network, with an internal email server (Sendmail), currently
> transmitting directly rather than via DSL provider email server.
> 3) Laptop, which must dialup to a Second ISP to send its email....
>
> Here is what I would like;
> 1) & 3) Laptop (which also has sendmail on it) able to connect whenever/
> whereever/however to internet, upload (relay) email to j2eeguys.com (w/o
> have j2eeguys.com becoming an open relay).
> 2) Home network connecting to and authenticating with DSL Mailserver,
> and sending email that way.
>
> I have been studying and looking at all documentation I can get my hands
> on, but I am missing something somewhere, and after several weeks, I am
> completely frustrated with this.  I have posted questions here in the
> past, and while helpful, the response have not actually solved the
> problem.  What I am looking for is somebody who can spend 1/2 day to a
> day going over what I have, and getting it up and running.  I would be
> willing to pay reasonable rates (I have already spent an Unreasonable
> amount of time on this issue, and need it solved!).
>
> Thanks,
> Steve

A suggestion.  Use one of the mail servers to consolidate all of your accounts 
using fetchmail.  For example the home server could get mail sent directly to 
it and retreive mail from the j2EEguys server.  You could then run 
Spamassassin and virus software on all your mail and collect it on your 
laptop via pop3 with Kmail or whatever.  If you also run sendmail on your 
home server your laptop can relay mail through that server on the same 
connection.  To aviod runnng an open relay you can configure Sendmail with 
SASL to authenticate for relaying. 

-- 
Scott Hollomon
Collin Street Bakery, Inc.
scott at collinstreet.com