i use sendmail and qpopper, both of which can be found on the suse cds. install sendmail, procmail, qpopper rpms then edit /etc/inetd.conf and uncomment the line dealing with the qpopper daemon. restart or kill -HUP inetd and then get ready to setup sendmail. with suse 7.1, sendmail is compiled to use tcp wrappers so in your /etc/hosts.allow file, put sendmail: ALL: ALLOW or else no one will be able to connect to your mail server. if you start getting spam from a domain, simply add their domain to /etc/hosts.deny for sendmail and you wont get any spam from them. also, you will need to create a file /etc/mail/sendmail.cw and in it you only need your domain name larkhavengolf.com. this is the file listing all domains for which you will receive email. also, there are two or three other files, /etc/mail/access and /etc/mail/virtusertable that control things like relaying and virtual email addresses. look at the examples in these and things will be pretty straightforward from there. after editing these files, you will need to remake the .db files associated with them by doing makemap hash /etc/mail/access < /etc/mail/access now you are ready to start sendmail with rcsendmail start some other things to worry about, you will need valid user accounts on the machine for each user who is to receive email. also, your /var partition needs to be big enough to handle all the mail that is recieved. you may want to look into enabling quotas for your mail users. you will also need an mx record on someones dns server pointing all mail for larkhavengolf.com to your machine. whatever you do, just dont let your machine be an open relay. in your /etc/mail/access file, only list the ips you want to be allowed to relay through your machine. if you are on a dial-up or some other type of dynamic connection not on the same lan as your server, dont just put in your entire dial-up range of ips, setup some type of authentication based smtp-relaying or better yet, just use your isp's mail server for relaying hope this helps. On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Brandon Caudle wrote:
We currently own a domain name (larkhavengolf.com) and we would like to setup a smtp and pop3 email server. How do we go about this?(running 7.2, full install)
Brandon Caudle -------------- 15yr Old Avid Unix User (HP-UX,FreeBSD,Linux) Larkhaven Golf Course Charlotte, NC
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