Mail server
Skylar Thompson
skylar at cs.earlham.edu
Mon Sep 19 15:27:58 UTC 2005
Abilash Praveen M wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie to linux. I'd been using Centos for a couple of weeks.
> Now I've changed my box to FC4. I however do not have enough
> experience in handling mail servers. I have setup everything except
> the mail server. I already have my MX changed to point to this box..
> but I'm not sure how I would setup all emails to
> someone at sub.thisbox.com <mailto:someone at sub.thisbox.com> come to my
> nix box.
>
> I have sendmail (iam not sure if sendmail is used to accept incomming
> emails) and I created a sub.thisbox.com in the local domains list. I
> think created an alias somone and asked it to send emails to my
> hotmail address. So, I assumed that when I send an email to
> someone at sub.thisbox.com <mailto:someone at sub.thisbox.com> it would go
> to my hotmail address. But it doesn't happen to be so. I don't get a
> undelivered message.. but it seems to have gone into the queue for
> unknown reasons.
>
> Can I request you please to help me out setting up my email server? I
> might need to also host my thisbox.com emails once I succeed with this
> sub. I might probably need pop3 access too. I found that centos was
> not very much helpful for me.. but i'm not sure if FC4 list would help
> me cuz I might sound too newbie????
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who will help me out.
Unless you have a particular reason for using sendmail, I'd recommend
using something simpler like Postfix (http://www.postfix.org). It'll
probably do everything you need it to do anyways, and be ready to go in
under an hour.
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-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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