On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:14:28AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I want to configure my computer as a pop3 mail server. I have installed > qpopper, and it works fine for fetching mail, but when I try to send an > email to that server, the message never arrives and the mailer deamon > (with which I sent the email) responds that there is no user. I think you have no experience with mail services on the server side. k. I'll try to explain it: You've normaly 2 protocols, one for sending the mails and one to fetch them. The protocol for fetching is mostly POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3). The protocol for sending is SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). The difficult part is that the Server always send their mails through SMTP and recieve it through SMTP. So you need to run a SMTPd like sendmail, qmail or postfix. (I realy like the last one, cause it's easy to configure and something like secure) Fetchmail (a program for fetching mails) delivers the mails local to the local SMTPd wich takes the Mail and puts it into your spool file.
O.K. the hole prozess looks somthing like this You send your mail through SMTP to the relay server. SMTP-->SMTP The relay server delivers the mail through SMTP to the final destination (could be a Mail gateway) SMTP-->SMTP The destination looks up the user and/or other access roules and delivers the mail through SMTP into the local user mailbox (normaly /var/spool/mail/<user_name> SMTP-->Mailbox Then your friend connect through POP3 to the server and fetches the mail. Mailbox-->POP3 Local the fetchmail programm delivers the Mail through SMTP into the local mailbox POP3-->SMTP-->Mailbox. Hope it's not to hard do unterstand. Try postfix and go to www.postfix.org! Cu, Sven -- ACHTUNG! Aktuelle e-mail Adresse ist [EMAIL PROTECTED] ====================================================== One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them
