Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-29 Thread Jef Driesen
On 02/29/2012 04:38 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:33:45PM +0100, Jef Driesen wrote: With some help from a dyndns account, I can even access my imap server from outside my network. This works great, except that I can't send mails from outside my network. Therefore, I woul

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/28/2012 9:18 PM, John Hudak wrote: > Ahhh, the crux of my cluelessness: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > "Any dyndns service that allows using a real domain.tld will work. Make > sure > your consumer router is doing dynamic IP updates to the dyndns provider. > Create an MX record with the FQDN of

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 04:33:45PM +0100, Jef Driesen wrote: > With some help from a dyndns account, I can even access my imap > server from outside my network. This works great, except that I > can't send mails from outside my network. Therefore, I would like > to setup an smtp server that simply

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread John Hudak
Ahhh, the crux of my cluelessness: Stan Hoeppner wrote: "Any dyndns service that allows using a real domain.tld will work. Make sure your consumer router is doing dynamic IP updates to the dyndns provider. Create an MX record with the FQDN of your mail host. Since dyndns services provide wilda

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/28/2012 11:51 AM, John Hudak wrote: > Thank you. I did find/read that. In addition to not finding the pulling > down email, one of the pieces that was unclear/missing for me is how to map > a domain name that is acquired from, for example, DynDns, to a machine on > my home network. The mapp

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 2/28/2012 11:08 AM, John Hudak wrote: > I can sympathise as I looked into doing this first with sendmail and more > recently with postfix. Unfortunately after spending lots of time reading, > I could not put the pieces together the right way to run a home server. My > circumstances were simila

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Jef Driesen
On 02/28/2012 04:57 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 28.02.2012 16:33, schrieb Jef Driesen: Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver for a small home network. But before going into the problems, let's start with a description of the situation. My network is a typical home network with a cable mod

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Jef Driesen
On 02/28/2012 04:33 PM, Jef Driesen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver for a small home network. But before going into the problems, let's start with a description of the situation. My network is a typical home network with a cable modem and a dynamic ip. There is no domain name or m

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Jef Driesen
On 02/28/2012 04:37 PM, Janantha Marasinghe wrote: You could use dyndns since your IP would be dynamic. However the issue here is with the setup you are telling most of the mail servers out there will drop you e-mail. That shouldn't be a problem, because I'm using the smtp server of my isp as

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Wietse Venema
John Hudak: > Thank you. I did find/read that. In addition to not finding the pulling > down email, one of the pieces that was unclear/missing for me is how to map > a domain name that is acquired from, for example, DynDns, to a machine on > my home network. The mapping is not clear, as well as

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 28.02.2012 18:37, schrieb Wietse Venema: > John Hudak: >> I looked high and low for some sort of help/how-to and did not find one. >> If you succeed, I'd be very interested in how you set up postfix. > > http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html has suggestions for sending > to a provider from ma

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread John Hudak
Thank you. I did find/read that. In addition to not finding the pulling down email, one of the pieces that was unclear/missing for me is how to map a domain name that is acquired from, for example, DynDns, to a machine on my home network. The mapping is not clear, as well as what should be done

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Wietse Venema
John Hudak: > I looked high and low for some sort of help/how-to and did not find one. > If you succeed, I'd be very interested in how you set up postfix. http://www.postfix.org/SOHO_README.html has suggestions for sending to a provider from mail from systems that don't have a real name. It doesn'

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread John Hudak
I can sympathise as I looked into doing this first with sendmail and more recently with postfix. Unfortunately after spending lots of time reading, I could not put the pieces together the right way to run a home server. My circumstances were similar to yours - multiple machines on a 198.162.x.x n

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 28.02.2012 16:33, schrieb Jef Driesen: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a mailserver for a small home network. But before going > into the problems, let's start with a description of the situation. > > My network is a typical home network with a cable modem and a dynamic ip. > There is no do

Re: Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Janantha Marasinghe
Hi Jef, You could use dyndns since your IP would be dynamic. However the issue here is with the setup you are telling most of the mail servers out there will drop you e-mail. On 2/28/2012 9:03 PM, Jef Driesen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver for a small home network. But befor

Postfix on a small home network (without a domain name)

2012-02-28 Thread Jef Driesen
Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver for a small home network. But before going into the problems, let's start with a description of the situation. My network is a typical home network with a cable modem and a dynamic ip. There is no domain name or mx records. All users on the network have exi