qmail easy set instructions

[Riga, Anthony]

Thanks Justing I am going to try it. What I want to do is be able to send and receive mail and connect with mail client. Just to learn..  DO I need to configure dns or do I just use my dns from ods.org? Thanks for the help..

-----Original Message----- 
From: Justin Bennett [mailto:justin.bennett at dynabrade.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:59 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: qmail easy set instructions


Sendmail is probably the easiest to setup and it comes with redhat by 
default. To send it's easy, all you need to do is start it up, and you 
can send from the linux box no problem. To send from other machines on 
the network all you need to do is:
vi /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

comment out the
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
line by putting dnl in front of it:

EX:

dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
dnl to accept email over the network.
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

By default sendmail only listens on the local interface to send mail, 
this tells it to listen on all.
 m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf

Then restart sendmail now you can send from other machies by setting the 
linux box up as your smtp server.


Incoming is a little trickier. Email me for some more info.



THEN generate your sendmail.cf



Riga, Anthony wrote:

>Does anyone have any good step by step tutorial in setting up qmail or send mail. I want to set up a mail server at home to send receive mail and to test. I just need the basics and hopefully keep it simple. I know Mark gave a little demo at on meeting I was at but it kinda went over my head. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. It would be nice if we could have meetings during the week because Ive been real busy on Sundays to meet or I would go downtown. 
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Justin Bennett
Network Admin
Dynabrade, Inc.