Kory:
OK, different question than I thought I was answering. Most of
the mail server questions concern having an active reciever. If what
you want to do is set your box up to check multiple accounts and send
without going though your ISP's account, as in smpt or the like, then
yes, you can do that. I would suggest a client like Mutt, or
Sylpheed. They should be able to handle that configuration for you.
If your reciever function is already taken care of, 90% of the battle
is done. Sending is easy. You need to read up on SMPT (simple mail
transfer protocol) Is is a fairly easy deal to set up. Still, I
know more about who to ask than how to do it. I used to set it up on
Novell and Winblows servers all the time. I have set it up on Linux
a few times, but the apps usually do it better. Have you ever looked
at Webmin? www.webmin.com ? Mutt and Sylpheed do this internally
and you do not need to get your hands (very) greasy. Webmin will let
you peek under the hood.
Doug
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> Doug,
>
> I appreciate you taking the time to provide the explanation. I
> still do not
> understand why I would need a domain name to do what I want to do.
> I
> currently retrieve my email from multiple POP3 accounts using
> fetchmail. I
> was using my ISP's SMTP server to send mail out. However, I
> thought that
> this could be bypassed, with my outgoing email going directly to
> wherever
> (i.e., [email protected]). I am not overly converned about how a
> reply might
> get back to me because I have my "respond to" field filled with a
> valid POP3
> address. So why can't I do this?
>
> Kory
>
> On Friday 30 August 2002 8:40 pm, Doug Riddle wrote:
> > As someone indicated earlier, by-passing your ISP requires
> another
> > destination. Ergo, you would need a domain, a webmail account or
> > somewhere for the mail to be sent. Without a static IP Address
> it is
> > problematic. A dial up or a DHCP address will not do. For a
> mail
> > sever you need a "always on" connection. If it is not a static
> IP
> > you need to really stay on top of it and change your DNS if the
> > address changes. Secondly, as mentioned, you will need a DNS
> > service. I use Easyspace, they register my domain and provide
> the
> > DNS routing for free.
> >
> > I host my domain remotely and can redirect the mail to my local
> > sever, hold it at my domain and access it as webmail or direct it
> to
> > my yahoo account. Since Cox uses DHCP, and I am WAY TOO CHEAP to
> pop
> > for a static address, I use the yahoo account.
> >
> > I can suggest a mentor or two that do run local domains and mail
> > servers. I have done it, just to see if I could, but keeping it
> > active was way too much work due to dhcp.
> >
> > Most of the information I needed I got out of "Running Linux",
> > http:\\www.tldp.org, http:\\www.debian.org and the libranet users
> > email list. I set it up, it worked, Cox punted my modem and
> assigned
> > a new IP address 48 or so hours later, I lost two or three emails
> and
> > went back to Yahoo.
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