On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 01:17, Richard Bown wrote: > OK replying to myself is bad :) >
not at all :-) Of the stuff people post to the list, about 50% goes unanswered, 25% gets answered by the original poster, 25% someone else answers. If we didn't talk to ourselves, 25% of the problems would never get solutions posted. > made some progress , but sorted the process of collecting mail to > evolution. > It's all do-able, but divide and conquer the problem set. 1) get your machine to accept inbound mail for the right domains. Sounds like you're on the right path for that with postfix and the dynamic DNS place. 2) For local delivery, you might as well just use the local spool -- see screenshot. 3) For delivery to other people, you'll want pop or imap. Both come with urpmi imapd, but there are firewall considerations, security considerations, etc. Do yourself a favor and look up stunnel, secure pop and imap are actually quite easy to set up. 4) It's fun to send messages too, and then there's MTA spam and virus filtering, mailing lists, &c... > > Not sure how to deal with an alias. > The host name of this machine is gb7tf.org.uk, which I use freeparking > to redirect from. > I setup one of the e-mail aliases at freeparking to point to the dyndns > site with the hostname "rf-engineer.homelinux.com"., which is updated > with the dynamic address of this machine. > . > So I need to get postfix to accept mail for > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ,which at the moment its rejecting. > > I'm still going to need to setup a pop sever on my sons firewall machine > as he uses winyuk OS. > Thanks > Richard > > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 06:47, Richard Bown wrote: > > Hi > > I have a mjor problem with e-mail here, and its nothing to do with > > Mandrake9.1. > > Since my ISP has really got into bed with microyuk, their POP3 server > > can take anything up to 10 mins to authenticate the password. > > > > so Evolution keeps asking for the password, and gets it knickers in a > > right twist as I check for new mail every 10 mins.it always recovers in > > the end :) > > > > So what I'm trying to do is bypass my ISP on incoming mail. > > I do have a dynamic address as I'm on cable here. > > > > About 10% of my mail is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is then > > redirected to my ISP and I POP it from their site, that e-mail address > > also get spammed badly by porn sites at times. I use the mail filters to > > catch most of it, but some still gets thru. > > > > > > So wht Ive done so far:- > > > > Installed postfix, set up an account on dyndns pointing to this machine > > > > > > What I want to do is divert the subscribe list mail , which is about 98% > > of incoming via the dyndns alias to port25 ,so postfix accepts it. > > As the smtp server on my ISP seems to behave I can deliver outgoing mail > > to that. > > > > The incoming mail is the bit I'm stuck on. > > > > Getting mail that postfix has acceptted delivered to my mail client > > "Evolution". > > > > Do I need to install a pop server to interface between postfix and > > evolution ? > > > > > > I know this is a bit of a daft question to some, but with most things > > linux the first time trying to get something to work without help is an > > uphill struggle. > > > > > > TIA > > Richard -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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