On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 14:58:01 -0500, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This should work without much of a problem. My machine here at home is called "tbird.merlin" (the other one is "p2-400.merlin") and that is fine. Postfix never complains and nicely translates any address that is not qualified to my official e-mail address. Paul >(I'm not the original poster.) I've read some documents (on the order >of a year ago) and still have not set up my mail server. I believe (and >I'm looking for confirmation) that I don't have to have a registered >domain name to run a mail server. > >To get specific, I have an email address at my isp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). >When I set up my mail server at home, I plan to give it an arbitrary >fully qualified domain name (that will not be registered) and then use >aliases or whatever to make the system work. (I'll probably use >fetchmail to get the mail, let postfix / procmail sort it, then let >postfix send it. I won't need the FQDN for fetchmail, but I guess I >will need if for Postfix so that upstream mail providers don't think I'm >an illegal relay (or whatever).) (I'll probably use something like >system8.home.z as my non-registered FQDN, where system8 is the host name >of my main Linux box, home is the workgroup of my Windows network, and z >is totally arbitrary, but avoids any chance of collision with a real two >or three letter top level domain.) > >Detailed pointers would be appreciated, but a general "yes, this can >work, you're on the right track" (or the opposite) would be very >helpful. -- No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent. -Mercelene Cox http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.5 claws
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