> I've set up an e-smith "box" and it works just > great... except for email. > > One problem appears to be the network setup. I use a > cable modem so the "real domain" that the e-smith > set-up asks for would be "home.com"? Actually since > there is a hub and (some) other computers behind it, I > came up with a different (internal) domain name for > those computers. Is there any special config that > e-smith requires? How do I tell the e-smith server > that it should "look like" xyz.home.com to the world > and mongo.mynet.internal to the other computers? I've > set up the other computers to have mongo's IP in their > /etc/host file for starters. I guess I need 2 host & > domain names on the same box and I don't know how to > configure e-smith to do that. I'm in the same situation as yourself, but with a different provider. E-smith appears to our internal net as gatekeeper.nigs.net and to the outside world as pc-blah.ntlworld.com and also as nigs.homeip.net due to the use of dyndns. I don't have any MX records set up for the dynamic name as all mail is pulled off a pop3 server elsewhere, then delivered to the appropriate user account by e-smith by setting the 'Select Sort Header' to X-Envelope-To. Works extremely well and is documented at http://www.networklab.co.uk/cmodem/esmith.html, tho' some of the email and domain detail is missing (too much to do!). > Then, there is qmail. and fetchmail. > Since this is a "stealth" system (no public domain > name for this box other than XYZ.home.com) I'd like to > use fetchmail to "POP" the email from the external > systems that hold it for me and deliver it locally to > myuser on the e-smith box. Once I've skimmed the > email with IMP, I want to be able to POP it from one > of the internal workstations where I read and file my > email. Again, doing this without any trouble. > Now, I've gotten fetchmail to work but the emails that > it pick up seem to vanish. They are never delivered > to my account on the e-smith box. I started looking > at the qmail docs since fetchmail seemed to be working > ok. There is a TEST.receive document and I keep > getting an error when I try to duplicate their test. > Here is the transcript: > > > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to 127.0.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 localhost SMTP daemon ready. > helo dude > 250 localhost pleased to meet you, dude > mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 501 Syntax Error in parameters or arguments > quit > 221 Closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. Are you sure you have the syntax correct here, shouldn't it be: mail to:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ? > now before you tell me that I should not put the "<" > and ">" around the name, I get the same result without > them. > I hope that this is enough (but not to much) > information that some of you gurus will be able to > help me out. Hardly a guru, but hope it helps. Nig -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
