Hi, My internet access is through cable modem (Mediaone) and I have a five-machine LAN behind a SuSE box, with IP forwarding and a firewall. One of my reasons for setting up a home LAN, aside from being able to surf the net without having to kick someone off of the only computer, was to be able to give everyone in my house their own e-mail address. I was told that this could be done, but I'm not yet sure how. Mail addressed to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets to me the same as mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I think maybe even [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is the name Mediaone assigned my computer (me?), although I haven't tested that lately as an e-mail address. I think I understand the basic process, that the basic translation of e-mail domains is is a function of various DNS's, and that each message is passed along until it reaches its destination (or not). So I expect that somewhere along the line Mediaone's mail servers do some sort of "translation" of e-mail addresses to get my e-mail to me. But they aren't able to translate any messages beyond that "point". So the question in my mind at the moment is where and how would the translation be done for, say, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or some variant of that. I have a feeling that I need to set up my own DNS to do the final translation. Is that true? And if it is, how do I do that, and what would the configuration file look like. Would I have to run sendmail as well? And if I did, how do I protect myself from spammers using my address/domain to bounce spam onto the internet. Thanks. Stan Koper - To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archiv at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
