At 14:39 08/10/01 +0000, martin kelly wrote: >I have SuSE 7.2 running as a server on a small network which has one other PC >which runs win2k and is connected to the server via a hub. I have two NICS - >eth0 connected to a cable modem and eth1 my internal LAN. I access the >internet thru a proxy server and I have set up samba to act as my file >server. My queston is this. > >I have set up fetchmail with the use of webmin to collect mail from my ISPs. >This is okay but as I also have kmail configured, I'm not sure why I need >fetchmail. What I would like to do is forward my mail onto my win2k
If kmail is configured to fetch the mail from your ISP then yes there is some redundancy there. On the other hand you may want to change your mail program at some time - if you have fetchmail configured and run it periodically, then you can still use kmail - just tell it to use your Linux box as the pop/imap server. You could also configure the Windows box to do the same. I suspect that when you say 'forward' you really mean have your mail available on the Windows box. If you want to access the same account as the kmail program then I think you'll need to first download it to your Linux box using fetchmail. >laptop but I'm not sure if this has to be configured in sendmail, fetchmail >or even procamil; or perhaps a combination of all three. I've read lots of Sendmail is normally only used for outgoing mail. There are exceptions; some ISP accounts which allow 'unlimited' mailboxes use SMTP for incoming mail. To configure you r Linux box to handle the outgoing mail then you need to do 2 things: (NB I use RedHat - some of the file locations my be different for you). 1) set up the smart relay in the sendmail.cf file (actually you don't _really_ need to do this but it helps). Look for a line beginning DS and change that to your ISPs SMTP server e.g. DSsmtp.isp.co.uk 2) tell sendmail it should allow relaying from your laptop by adding its address to /etc/mail/ip_allow and /etc/mail/relay_allow Procmail is usually used for sorting/redirecting incoming mail. >HOWTOs but this one has had me thinking for some time so I feel now is a good >time to ask for some help. I would also like to at the same time change my >domainname from linux.xxxx to mydomain.co.uk. Would I be right in saying >that I only need to do this is in: > >/etc/hosts >/etc/HOSTNAME On RedHat it needs to be configured in /etc/sysconfig/network too. You might be wiser trying to change it in Yast. HTH Colin -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
