[NTLUG:Discuss] Sendmail Help

[Scott Hollomon]

On Tue April 27 2004 1:44 pm, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> Scott Hollomon wrote:
> >On Tue April 27 2004 11:53 am, Stephen Davidson wrote:
> >>Greetings.
>
> [snip]
>
> >>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.
>
> Hi Scott.
> Variation I am currently doing, all accounts forward to one, and I just
> pick up email from that one account.  However, that account is Dialup
> that I am looking to drop, which is why I am trying to reconfigure stuff.
> Tried configuring SASL, blew something (no idea what), and fell flat on
> my face.   Which is why I am asking for help.  And I do not currently
> have (I don't think) POP3 or LDAP software installed at j2eeguys.  Would
> be nice, especially if something could be set up that would have Webmail
> access.  But this Java Developer is out of his league. :(
>
> Do have some antispam and antivirus utilities running on my J2EEGuys.com
> system, however.  Not too concerned about virii on my account(s), as I
> run Java/Linux just about everywhere.  Somewhat more concerned about
> other users, which is why I do have antiviral scanner running.
>
> Regards,
> Steve

Ok.  First use Webmin (I know that's kind of like cheating, but what the heck) 
to configure Sendmail, its a lot easier.  To configure SASL with send mail 
for forwarding here are my install notes:

http://www.hollomon.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

It's not the distro you are using, but the concepts should be valid.  By the 
way, I also have my server running Openwebmail, which is a great app if your 
going to run POP3 and don't want to configure a database back end.  

If J2EEGuys is a server you control you can easily set it up to relay mail and 
provide webmail access for everything you do.  I have a cheap single box 
serving three domains for web and mail. 
-- 
Scott Hollomon
Collin Street Bakery, Inc.
scott at collinstreet.com