Hi Jack
well a fair progress. I can send mail to myself routing it thru the mail redirectat freeparking, to dyndns and thru postfix on this machine , with evolution pulling the mail from /var/spool/mail. However there a small snag I send a mail from evolution to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thats sent to smtp.blueyonder.co.uk which sends it to freeparking which redirects it as [EMAIL PROTECTED] which sorta flys past dyndns to postfix on this machine. My hostname here is gb7tf.org.uk in /etc/postfix/aliases richard: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in /etc/posfix/virtual [EMAIL PROTECTED] richard in etc/postfix/main.cf mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain rf-engineer.homelinux.com ##thats all 1 line virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases myhostname = gb7tf.org.uk myorigin = $mydomain masquerade_domains = $mydomain virtual_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical relayhost = smtp.blueyonder.co.uk I did get some help with the mydestination line on the club site tnx so what happens is the mail arrives addressed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" BUT it arrives in evolution as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and thats also the reply address which is not so good. At least I can send mail to myself and it takes a few 10's of seconds now , compared with up to 10 mins via my ISP's popserver, also their pop sever can take up to 30 mins to authenticate the password The marvels of microsoft !!!! :) Any ideas where where that missing part of the address is going on my system. The last time I played with mail servers was on NOS which is a clone of the NOS written by Phil Karn nearly 20 years ago. And then rewrite files were called rewrite files. TIA Richard On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 17:02, Jack Coates wrote: > 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
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