On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 9:00 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 Jul 2003 3:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I would also like to be able to send internal mail to other > > > users on the lan. At the moment I have to use their address on > > > our domain, sending it externally, which seems silly when we > > > could communicate through a few walls. > > > > Well, I found how to set up a local mailbox in kmail, and I set > > sendmail as the protocol. Right? I sent the first message to a > > windows machine, but another Mandrake machine should be on soon, > > so I'll send one there too and see what happens. > > > > Next question, then. How do I set up the windows machines to be > > able to send/receive local mail? > > Well, you don't, exactly ... as you're already aware, Windows > machines are fairly brain-dead, and you can only do so much with > them. ;) > > What you /can/ do is to have your Mandrake system handle the local > mail for everyone on the LAN, and have the Winboxes deal with that > for the sending and receiving thereof. > > You'll need to set up users on the Mandrake box for each individual > who will be receiving mail; these users do not need login > privileges, and can have their default shell set to "/bin/false" to > prevent this (can be done with Userdrake, as they are created). > Pseudo-users can also be configured in the /etc/aliases file, so > that sending a mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will distribute copies to > several specific users automatically. Remember to always run > "newaliases", then "postfix reload", after changing the aliases > file. > > To get the Winboxes to communicate with this setup, you need two > things on anne-linux: a copy of Postfix that will accept mail from > other IPs on the LAN, and a POP and/or IMAP server that will let > those systems retrieve their mail from your system. Postfix you > already have, for POP/IMAP you install the "imap200*" RPM from the > CDs. > > The imap RPM installs with POP turned on by default, and the other > three protocols it offers can be turned on with chkconfig: > > chkconfig imap on > chkconfig imaps on > chkconfig pop3s on > > (It offers a fifth protocol, POP2, but you don't need that.) > > After doing this, the xinetd daemon will need to be restarted (it > handles starting and stopping these services when they are > required). You'll also need to add a line like the following to > your /etc/hosts.allow file: > > ALL : 192.168.0. > > This allows access to these services to boxes on the 192.168.0.X > network. > > You then configure the Winboxes' mail clients by setting up > accounts that point to anne-linux's IP address for both SMTP > sending and POP3 (or IMAP) retrieval, with the email addresses of > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (you can use the FQDN for anne-linux if you > wish, but for this sort of local delivery arrangement it's not > needed). These accounts on the Windows MUAs are in addition to the > existing ones, not in place of them, to be clear. > > If I've left anything out, someone will mention it; if you have > questions (or concerns I haven't addressed), let us know. This is > quite doable. > > HTH!
Thanks Bill and Pierre. It's getting late now, but I'll study both of these tomorrow and see what I can do. Anne
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