Is it not possible to setup local email server? Anuj Agarwal
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, anuj agarwal <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I am building a website for which i need that whenever somebody fills up > the form, the form details should be sent to my gmail id. > I have not decided on the hosting yet but thinking about Amazon EC2 which > gives a virtual linux box to host the website. So, before actually putting > the whole of the code on the EC2 linux box, i was trying to test it on my > local linux machine. > > So first step was to check if i can email to my gmail id/or any email id > from my linux machine. For that, i guess i need to set up my local machine > for full mail service. > > Please let me know if any more clarifications required on it. I am trying > to do this from last two days but no success. > > Anuj Agarwal > > > > > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Bill Oliver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Are you: >> >> 1) Trying to use the linux machine as a client, perhaps using something >> like Evolution or Thunderbird, in order to read mail from your gmail >> account, and having trouble sending but not receiving email (a common >> problem)? >> >> 2) Trying to set up full mail service on your local machine and wanting >> to forward mail to your local domain to your gmail account? >> >> 3) Trying to set up full mail service on your local network and are >> trying to send mail gmail to test it? >> >> 4) Something else? >> >> >> billo >> >> >> >> On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, anuj agarwal wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I have a home PC which runs ubuntu linux 10.04. I am trying to configure >>> it for sending mail to my gmail Id. >>> I have searched the previous posts on this group and also tried google >>> but none of them work. >>> >>> I have installed sendmail and mailutils packages. When i send the email, >>> the comman run successfully but the mail does not come to my >>> mailbox. >>> >>> Can somebody tell me the steps of how to do it? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Anuj >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to >>> linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> >>> To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribe@** >>> googlegroups.com <linuxusersgroup%[email protected]> >>> For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/** >>> group/linuxusersgroup <http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup> >>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-**Rules.pdf<http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf> >>> ) >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to >> linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> >> To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribe@** >> googlegroups.com <linuxusersgroup%[email protected]> >> For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/linuxusersgroup <http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup> >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-**Rules.pdf<http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf> >> ) >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
