Quoting Kristi-Rheem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anyone know how (if it is Qpopper) to make it so that my employees can > check their mail from home. When we're in the office we set our outgoing > mail to the name of the Machine that Sendmail is on, but when I try the > domain name it gives me errors. I am using QPopper with Sendmail on a > Solaris 8 machine.
There are several issues with this. The first is that you would be exposing your machine to the Internet. It must be secured and monitored well if you do that. While you should secure LAN only machines, when exposed to the "bad neighborhood" (M. Ranum) that is the Internet, the imperative is stronger. The next is that, typically, pop users send their passwords in cleartext over the wire and get the mail in clear text. Not as dangerous on the LAN (given that it's easier to "0wn" someones machine by walking over to it), but unacceptable on the Internet without measures to protect that. Measure include using APOP (obscures the password only), SSL (connection is encrypted) or VPN (IPSec) which obscures the whole connection altogether. Okay, to the specifics: It sounds like you are having problems sending mail out. That's sendmail and DNS, not qpopper. If you offered specifics, like the words you put in that don't work, it would be easier to aid you. The easy test is if you can "ping" or "telnet" to the name in question (telnet to port 110 to emulate a POP client). Does it work? No? Can it not find the name (DNS problem)? Can it not reach the host? (routing/firewall issue)
