[ilug-cal] mail server

[Abhishek Jain]

i am facing a problems in configuring my mail server....   what i want is to use my linux system(Rhl 6.1) as server ..... through which i can send and recieve mails from all rest of the comps on windows (using outlook express)...now for this i got                                                   1. sendmail running                                                 2. fetchmail running                                                 3. imap   the problem is   1. nslookup is not responding.....when i have my nameserver 192.168.1.1 entry ....it gives a error   *** can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1 : No response from server *** Default servers are not available   so i removed all entries from resolv.conf....now it gives   Default server : myhost.domain.com Address : 0.0.0.0   so any entry in resolv.conf gives the above error....... also saw something....when i aws connected to the net using vsnl......it automatically added 3 lines in resolv.conf domain vsnl.net.in                        #temp nameserver 202.54.1.30                #temp nameserver 202.54.15.30                #temp   can somebody suggets what can be the probable prob in my config.....i am able to ping all the comps on the network(by there name even)....have entries done in/etc/hosts   2. i am able to send and recieve local mails from my outlook exp. on various comps......but want that i can retrieve mail from and send mails to various accounts on the net...... what shud be the config......   3. in outlook for imap config..... to which folder shud i point..... /var/spool/mail/user or /home/user/mail ??? at present am using to /var/spool/mail/user....... hope fetchmail delivers all mails here.....   4. again when use fetchmail......what i see is some thing like this....( i have ./fetchmailrc in my home )           2 mesages for abhijain9 at pop.mail.yahoo.com 58711(octets)         reading message 1 of 2 (19925 octets) fetchmail:SMTP error: 451<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         .... sender domain must resolve         ............... not flushed         reading message 2 of 2 (38786 octets) fetchmail:SMTP error: 451<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         .... sender domain must resolve         ...................................................................................... not flushed   so what possibly cud be the prob....am bugged seeing this error:451...   thats all for now......hope to get help soon abhishek