Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2417 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In the department for 'completely general advice';
>
> Don't start using your system for anything 'serious' until you're fairly
> familiar with how everything works together. It can be very stressfull and
> frustrating, when 'something' breaks and you're not sure how to fix it (or
> maybe not even *aware* that $whatever's broken) - since you may start to
> lose mail.
>
> Make *one* change at a time.
>
> Test everything, all the time.
>
> Check the logs.
>
> "lather, rinse, repeat"
Yea I was planning on I am the only one that uses it, until I am sure that 
everything is working, some of my friends that I talked to them about this 
are interested in getting an email account from me.  I am also going to keep 
my current email account active, just slowly move everything over to my own 
email address once it is ready.
> Also you may want to subscribe to this list with a 'nomail' account, so you
> can still get help if your system breaks.
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Mailing_Lists#Nomail_subscription
>
> > > I have the SUSE Linux Bible for SUSE 9.1, bought it from a
> > > local bookstore when I first started Linux, and it talks about Postix,
> > > Qpopper, and Cyrus but I was wondering if there are better programs now
> > > then there was back when that book was written.
> >
> > Don't start with programs, start with your requirements.
> >
> > If you wish to receive and send mails directly you need a static ip
> > address and a hostname with matching reverse dns record. Otherwise don't
> > bother.
>
> While having reverse dns is definitely desirable, it's not *required*. I've
> been doing fine without reverse dns for years.
>
> Static ip, if you can get it, is a very good thing though. Makes everything
> simpler.
I'm not sure if I am able to get a static ip, it depends on if my ISP will 
allow me to add that on top of my current internet account.