At 04:59 AM 12/16/02 +0000, Veggies Unite! wrote:
You understand, I trust, that the router will have to be set up to forward port 25 (SMTP) to the server. Linux routers do this easily, as do all the other NATing routers I've looked at in recent times. The details will depend on what router you have, of course.I hope that this is the correct place to e-mail this question - if not, I would appreciate being re-directed. I've set up SuSe 8.0 on a computer running through a router and a cable modem.
The omitted detail here is the relationship of the POP3 account to the domain name. Specifially, if the comain is whosis.com, does mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] get redirected (by way of an MX DNS entry, for example) to the Registrar's server (and thence to the POP3 account)? Or is the POP3account in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? The first setup will interfere with incoming mail but the second will not.I have a static IP, and I have a domain name pointing to the IP via a Registrar that also handles a POP3 account.
Aside from the details I've mentioned -- port forwarding and a possible MX-record conflict -- the sendmail part of this is a standard sendmail configuration. I'd expect SuSE to have an out-of-the-box setup procedure that handles this. If it doesn't ... what setup options does it give you?I've set up Majordomo on my computer and would like to configure sendmail as a mail server so that it will handle mailing lists aliases for Majordomo.
Receive it where? Do you have one or more workstations independent of the server? If so, this too is standard ... just install any of the popular POP3 servers (I run popa3d on my Debian server; there are several choices, and SuSE may favor one of the others). Then have the clients look to the LAN address of the server (assuming they are on the same LAN). If you want to get mail fro the server to off-LAN clients, the setup is a bit more involved ... post a followup if that's what you meant.Also, I would need to run a POP server to allow me to receive mail from my server instead of the Registar.
I can't give you an answer here until you explain how the POP3 account relates to the domain name. If e-mail to either [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does NOT get redirected to the POP3 account, then it should have no effect on the server's operation. If it does get redirected, then it migh still work, if you have the server collect the POP3 mail and use a glue program like procmail to distribute it to majordomo itself and to the various majordomo lists.In order for the aliases for majordomo to work, do I have cancel my mail coming from the POP3 account via the Registrar?
The packages you need to use themselves all come with the usual kinds of documentation (man pages, Info files, other odds and ends, and often their own Web sites), and if you are not familiar with the range of HowTos and similar resources at (for example) www.tldp.org, you shouuld make their acquaintance. Aside from that, the better approach is for you to describe particular problems you need help in solving.Please let me know of any documentation on this or if you have specific advice on what I would need to do.
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