On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> joshua.threeofus.com, and is aliased to: www.threeofus.com,
> discuss.threeofus.com, news.threeofus.com, mail.threeofus.com,
> pop.threeofus.com
[...]
> It is a redhat linux 6.1 box. this machine's permanent hostname in macDNS
> is monica.threeofus.com. it is aliased to pop3.threeofus.com.
So pop.threeofus.com and pop3.threeofus.com are two different machines? Is
that intentional? (It's certainly confusing... :)
> Ideally, I'd like any mail sent, from anywhere, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> be spooled at pop.threeofus.com (also 199.232.38.2, EIMS on the mac)...
Set the MX record for the threeofus.com domain to point to
mail.threeofus.com, which in term points to joshua.threeofus.com, which in
turn points to 199.232.38.2, which is your Mac running an SMTP listener.
> mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] winds up spooled on the linux box and
> can be read with pine or mutt. Trying to get it from pop3.threeofus.com
> or monica.threeofus.com doesn't work. For some reason, i am not able to
> telnet to port 110 on monica.threeofus.com, the linux box.
First, make sure you've got a POP3 server installed. On RHL 6.1, I believe
the POP3 server is contained in the "imapd" package.
Next, check your /etc/inet.conf file, and make sure there is a line that
looks something more or less like this:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d
Make sure it does NOT have a pound sign (#) in front of it, as that is a
comment character and will disable it.
If it still doesn't work, double-check your /etc/hosts.allow and
/etc/hosts.deny files, to make sure the port is open to your subnet.
See the man pages for inetd, inetd.conf, hosts.allow, and hosts.deny for
more information.
> There are other users @threeofus.com who DO ssh into the linux box for
> their mail rather than using pop clients.... Basically, isn't there a way
> to have smtp AND pop3 running on both monica.threeofus.com and
> joshua.threeofus.com but make it so I can setup how mail for any
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets handled (which machine it gets spooled on) on a
> user by user basis?
There is no way in the Domain Name System to handle mail on a user-by-user
basis. The only way you can do something like that is to route all mail to a
single host, and configure the mail system on that host to selectively forward
mail to other hosts based on the username. Consult the documentation for your
Mac's mail package to find out how to do that. Alternatively, use the Linux
box as your domain's mailhost, and we can tell you how to set it up. :)
--
Ben Scott
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