On Wed, 11 Nov 1998 info@edoc.co.za wrote:
Will it cause problems if I name my own machine the same as my domain hosted with the ISP?
You don't have to unless you're really wanting to do it this way, it's just as easier (easier?) to just set sendmail to masquerade your domain as your isp and create an appropriate user account on local machine. You can either use YaST to masquerade ( it'll adda line about domain maquerading to your sendmail.cf file in etc.) or build your own .mc file and generate your own .cf file to be used by sendmail. Check out the docs. It's pretty easy. If you know sendmail it's not difficult to add the right lines when you use m4 to build a .cf, if you don't, YaST, is the way to go, as it'll take care of it for you with no fuss, no muss.
Is it possible for sendmail not to call diald, but to wait till a dialup connection is made and only then sending mail?
You can set these options in YaST, I believe, if you use YaST to modify how sendmail runs, by setting the arguments using YaST's system configuration section. This will modify /etc/rc.config. It's in the SENDMAIL_ARGS line I believe. I might be wrong about this ( I don't use YaST for some things and have turned sendmail configuration off). If I'm mistaken I'm sure the right people, Lenz et al, will set me straight.
It does not seem as if fetchmail can be setup with YaST. Are there any examples available somewhere?
Fetchmail can't be set up with YaST. But from what I remember fetchmail comes with a sample script. There is also a sample script in the S.u.S.E. support database, that talks abit about sendmail, fetchmail, and the procmail package. a simple fetchmailrc might look like: server < put your isp here, e.g. , pop.linuxiscool.com > proto < e.g. pop3> user < your login name or whatever > pass < password > flush < delete the mail I download> mda < mail delivery agent, e.g. I use procmail, for instance. > Note: recent versions of fetchmail also have an X configurator or whatever, that will generate the right .fetchmailrc in $HOME. For other options to fetchmail besides what I listed try man fetchmail or read the FAQ that comes with it. It really is one of the easiest programs on earth to use IMHO. I also recommend reading that book that ships with 5.3 ( for seeing what YaST will do for you, re sendmail ) and/or checking out S.u.S.E.'s MASSIVE suport database and just use keywords to search through it. Most of your questions ( and then some ) are in there and in some cases are quite VERBOSE, and much MORE verbose and elucidating than the S.u.S.E. book is or sometimes even most mailing lists. -M - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e