"Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been struggling through setting up a mail server on my home > network, with the goal to be running an imap server. As I've indicated > on some other related postings I've made, networking is probably my > weakest side and I need a little help. > > I have no real internet name for the box, which I call "schfrbsd" > (named with a dot at the end in rc.conf hostname="schfrbsd."). Using > that name, I've managed to get Samba working and a local web server, > but when I come to mail, I get confused. The network is made up of a > bunch of XP Home Machines, the FreeBSD 4.9 machine, and a Netgear > Router/Firewall that also runs DHCP. I don't think it's relevant here, > but the workgroup name I use for Samba and Windows Peer Networking is > "olympia". The router is called schrout, if that helps.
If the router can do DNS as well as DHCP, that will help you out a lot. > When I come to configuring postfix, there are entries for myhostname > and mydomain. I believe myhostname should be schbsd. What do I use for > mydomain? Where should I be naming the domain? "myhostname" will default to whatever hostname(1) says. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
