When you get the SSL bit working (certificates), let me know - it's something I had thought about, but decided to put off to keep my efforts as simple as possible for now.
In my case, certificates aren't an extreme priority, but I DO need to figure them out sooner or later. Yep, I installed Webmin as well, and find it equally lacking for postfix. Had to manually create a new mailbox (i.e. create the user account, and setup up SASL myself). It's a handy tool for somethings (like Samba, and Postgres to some degree), but it's got a ways to go to be truely useful. (though I think they've done a decent job considering the size of the task they've set themselves.) Best of luck with your email server. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Kline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 2:28 PM To: CLUG TALK Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Sendmail On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:25, Shawn Grover wrote: > have you configured Sendmail to use all interfaces? by default it only > functions on the loopback interface (so it will be able to send/receive mail > itself, but other computers on the network can't). Yes, I was looking through your previous thread and I commented out the appropriate line in the sendmail.mc file and rebuild the sendmail.cf file. > What distro are you running? Suse had a gui option for this in the > SysConfig file/routines. I didn't have to worry about this with Red Hat > (mainly cuz I used Postfix instead). Actually I had SuSE Personal edition on this machine before, but I decided to wipe it out and go with RedHat 8.0. I checked to see if RedHat had a GUI config for sendmail, but they don't seem to have anything. I installed webmin, but I find it's easier just to edit things by hand. > With regards to your DNS, if you ping your hostname, does it get resolved to > the correct address? If so, then the DNS issues are not the problem. > > There's also a config setting for what domains you will process mail for - > localhost should be there, as well as your domain name. You shouldn't have > to configure anything to receive mail from other domains. I think I have it worked out now as per the previous posts. When I setup my laptop with a dialup account I was able to send and receive mail once I added telus.net to the /etc/mail/access file. Right now I am trying to make it more secure by substituting pop3s for ipop3d. The problem I'm having now is that every e-mail client I setup says that my certificate is no go (I build it myself btw). What do I have to do? Mozilla says that it's not trusted, so do I have to register it with a CA or something? Also kmail says that it has expired, even through when I look at the cert it doesn't expire 'till 2004. > (btw, best of luck, and I don't think anyone has ever said I've inspired > them... thanks! <grins>) Maybe I'm a gluten for punishment after reading your posts, but I figured that I should get to know sendmail better. I've played with it in the past, but never actually set it up. My uncle has the kline.ca domain name, so if I get it working I hope to set it up with that domain to serve e-mail to some of my family members. Thanks again, Jesse -- Jesse Kline, RHCT http://www3.telus.net/public/klinej/resume.html
